Red Tangent Records is helping ex-prisoners discover their talent and enter the music industry. Three of its artists discuss the label’s impact on their post-prison lives
“There is such a pool of raw talent in prisons,” says David Jones, CEO of Changing Tunes and co-founder of Red Tangent Records. “There are [inmates] who potentially have a real chance of making it in the music industry so we thought we should do something for them.”
Red Tangent was founded in 2021 by the team behind Changing Tunes, a charity that uses music to support UK prisoners and ex-prisoners in leading lives free from crime. “Red Tangent is a label for people with lived experiences of prison run by people with lived experiences of prison,” Jones says. “That’s in our DNA.”
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