{"id":174104,"date":"2015-12-13T13:55:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T13:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=174104"},"modified":"2015-12-13T13:55:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T13:55:29","slug":"malawian-prison-band-receives-grammy-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=174104","title":{"rendered":"Malawian Prison band receives Grammy nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content clearfix\">\n<p class=\"post-subtitle subtitle\">Zomba Prison Project, a Malawi prison band has been nominated for a Grammy award in the World Music category. The nomination is the first time that a music production from Malawi has been recognised by the acclaimed awards<\/p>\n<p>A group of male and female inmates doing time at Malawi\u2019s Zomba Prison have been nominated for a Grammy award in the World Music category. The prisoners, who are members of the Zomba Prison Project, recorded the album <i>I Have No Everything Here<\/i> in jail with the help of award winning producer Ian Brennan.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Zomba Prison Project have been incarcerated for various crimes, which include assault, murder and theft. The nomination is the first time that a music production from Malawi has been recognised by the acclaimed awards.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-track album was recorded in 2013 and released in January this year under Six Degrees Label. The album includes songs: Listen to Me (or I Will Kick Your Ass), Please, Don\u2019t Kill My Child, Prison of Sinners, The Weary &amp; the Burdened, amongst others.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the nomination, the producer Brennan told Al Jazeera, \u201cI am very happy for the prisoners and quite shocked really,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe awards have become extremely celebrity-driven, and ironically, the World category in particular has become so predictable \u2013 it\u2019s the same names almost every year \u2026 so to see a group of unknown individuals get a nomination makes it that much more of an accomplishment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Zomba Prison Project will be competing against Brazilian superstar, Gilberto Gil\u2019s \u201cGilbertos Samba Ao Vivo\u201d, Beninise Angelique Kidjo\u2019s \u201cSings\u201d, South African Ladysmith Black Mambazo With Ella Spira &amp; The Inala Ensemble\u2019s \u201cMusic From Inala\u201d and Indian Anoushka Shankar\u2019s \u201cHome\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Grammy.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zomba Prison Project, a Malawi prison band has been nominated for a Grammy award in the World Music category. The nomination is the first time that a music production from Malawi has been recognised by the acclaimed awards A group of male and female inmates doing time at Malawi\u2019s Zomba Prison have been nominated for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":174105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-174104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/174105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}