Emis Killa and Lazza visited the boys at the Monza prison

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Emis Killa and Lazza visited the boys at the Monza prison

On Friday (14 November), a meeting was held in the Sanquirico prison in Monza which brought together Lazza, Emis Killa and the inmates involved in the Free for Music project, an initiative promoted and financed by Orangle Records with the socio-educational supervision of Paolo Piffer.

Free for Music, born as a weekly workshop on writing and production, over time has transformed into a continuous path that allows participants to deal with themes that run through their daily lives – freedom, distance from family, fears, the desire for reintegration – translating them into original songs. An activity which, to take shape, required months of authorizations, checks and constant coordination between Orangle Records, the penitentiary institute and the educational area.

Lazza and Emis Killa listened to the songs created in the workshop, talked about the method, answered the participants' questions and shared passages of their professional journey: the expectations, the pressures, the mistakes, the opportunities taken or missed.

One of the objectives of the initiative is to bring the songs outside: not leaving them locked in cells or laboratory rooms, but transforming them into tracks published on digital platforms.

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