The British-Gambian musician said he spent a lot of his time in jail writing, adding that while he was physically imprisoned, his mind remained free, describing freedom as a “responsibility”.<\/p>\n
“Reading and writing was my freedom,” he said. “You find your own freedom and use it. It’s more than just a cage – your mind is free.”<\/p>\n
He added: “You can be stuck anywhere for years and years but there’s nothing like your mind. Embrace your mind and embrace your thoughts.”<\/p>\n
Salieu said he hoped the documentary would help to encourage others in similar situations to his own and also spoke of his love for his home city.<\/p>\n
“If I wasn’t in Coventry, would I have pursued music? Probably not,” he said. “Coventry is where I found myself.”<\/p>\n
Asked about when he would release new music, he said “really soon”, adding: “Creating is something I can control.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The British-Gambian musician said he spent a lot of his time in jail writing, adding that while he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-510446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}