![]() ![]() There’s some pop, some R&B, country, house and reggae. The album features collaborations with Jamaican artists D’Yani, Saine Rapley, Janeel Mills and Ch4se. Watch: The author of Shantaram has a music album outĪll 16 tracks on the album have been composed and written by Roberts. It took him from 2018 to 2020 to line up all the right collaborators. ![]() These are songs he began writing in 2015. ![]() It was in prison, while writing his book, that he began composing music. There were reams on his time in Bombay in the 1980s, when he worked on the fringes of a gang, as well as his eventual capture and return to prison in Australia. In his novel, readers got a fictionalised glimpse of the Australian’s years as a heroin addict, a prisoner sentenced for armed robbery and then a prison escapee who spent a decade on the run. It’s an unusual turn in an unusually eventful life. “These songs come from the constant experience of my life that, with love and faith, anything is possible,” Roberts says. Released in December, it’s called Love & Faith, with lyrics inspired by characters and themes from Shantaram and the author’s recent six years of spiritual seclusion. ![]() Gregory David Roberts - best known for the bestselling book Shantaram (2003) - has a music album out. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |