country music sensation jelly roll He returned to the Nashville Juvenile Detention Center, where he had previously served time, to launch a new songwriting program to help incarcerated youth find their musical voice.
Fellow country music stars helped with the unveiling ceremony. Ernest Nashville Hall of Fame songwriter Jeffrey Steele.
Jelly Roll kicked off a series of new studio openings on April 18 with a rally that included Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell (D) and other country music artists.
Jerry Roll spoke about his time in the Davidson County Juvenile Detention Center.
“When I was a boy, we never had visitors in our home. According to Country Now, we had no leaders and no one ever came to see us. ” he said. report. “It has been a dream of mine to come back on these terms and this is just the beginning.”
For the opening, Jelly Roll will partner with the Beat of Life Organization, a Nashville-based nonprofit dedicated to creating songwriting and music programming for vulnerable populations across the country. did.
Chairman Casey Levasseur told Breitbart News that Beat of Life will regularly work at a juvenile detention center.
“We go to JDC two days a week to work in the studio. We offer music production education, rap classes, and more to those interested to teach, mentor, and encourage participants. We offer songwriting and studio time, as well as music business classes,” she said.
“We also plan to produce songs from this program and continue to support inmates through music instruction after they turn 18 and are released from JDC.”
Casey’s father, Jeffrey Steele, attended the opening and performed alongside fellow country music star Jelly Roll and others. Ernest. Steele also worked with the inmates to write one of the numbers.
Casey LeVasseur, Jeffrey Steele, Jelly Roll, ERNEST. (Photo by Nathan Chapman)
Steele also helped sponsor the event through his family’s philanthropic foundation, the Alex Levasseur Memorial Fund of the Middle Tennessee Community Foundation.
Casey LeVasseur, Beat of Life Organization Board Chair, said: (Photo courtesy of Hadley Lewis)
Jelly Roll reportedly became emotional at the event.
“As I was sitting there, I was like, “One day I’m going to come back and introduce the studio, and I’m going to partner with Beat of Life, and the songwriters are going to come out to support the cause, and the fucking mayor is going to introduce me.” I never dreamed that you would do that. I can never imagine something like this,” Jelly Roll said.
“It wasn’t in the bingo card for my life.”
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