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Outlook: Jail Time Records: Songs from a Cameroon prison

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24/02/2021 GMT

Jail Time Records: Songs from a Cameroon prison

BBC World Service - Outlook, Jail Time Records: Songs from a Cameroon prison

Music producer Vidou H made an album while wrongly accused of murder

Music producer Vidou H was sent to prison for a murder he did not commit. He made an album with the talent he found inside.

Vidou H was a music producer and DJ with an enviable life in Cameroon, but everything changed when he and his brothers were falsely accused of murder. He was sent to a tough overcrowded prison to await trial, a process that took two years. For much of that time he had no access to music, until a recording studio was set up inside, the idea of an Italian artist called Dione Roach. Dione hoped music could help with rehabilitation and Vidou H was quickly put in charge of the production side. He started making an album with the talent he found in prison. The result is the soon to be released Jail Time Records Vol.1.   

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(Photo: Music producer Vidou H. Credit: Dione Roach)

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