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"Singing Through Prison Walls"


Naima Shalhoub is a Lebanese singer and performing artist who works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Naima has two R&B/Soul music albums "Borderlands" or "Live in San Francisco County Jail" as it's called on Spotify and "Siphr". According to a video by the YouTube channel, AJ+ called "Singing Through Prison Walls" her inspiration for her first album "Borderlands" were movements from 2014 to "to abolish the prison industrial complex". This video is an informative text where Naima speaks to viewers and tells them what she wants people to get out of her songs, as well as it shows the behind-the-scenes process of how her album was made and the impact it has had on women currently doing time in jail. This album was recorded inside of San Francisco country jail for incarcerated women. Naima's goal for this album was it inspire and raise money for reentry programs, and she did this by donating 50% of what she made on the album back into reentry programs for people just getting out of jail.

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