My simple and humble advice is to like yourself. Today, with the Covid-19 pandemic, many people have experienced isolation for the first time. My time in prison passed more quickly and I began to write again. And with that understanding, I began to shape my destiny, so that when I completed the two years underground and returned to the general prison population, I created a literacy program for lifers who couldn’t read or write. I realised that all the pain and humiliation I’d suffered was really just a beast of my own creation. In the second year I came to grips with the real truth, which was that I was ultimately responsible for my actions and their consequences. In the first year there was a fair amount of whining and moaning to myself. I spent two years in solitary confinement as punishment for escaping from prison. How did your years in prison yield a book and music? “These songs come from the constant experience of my life that, with love and faith, anything is possible,” Roberts told Wknd. There’s some pop, some R&B, country, house and reggae. The album features collaborations with Jamaican artists D’Yani, Saine Rapley, Janeel Mills and Ch4se.
Watch: The author of Shantaram has a music album outĪll 16 tracks on the album have been composed and written by Roberts. It took him from 2018 to 2020 to line up all the right collaborators. These are songs he began writing in 2015. It was in prison, while writing his book, that he began composing music. There were reams on his time in Bombay in the 1980s, when he worked on the fringes of a gang, as well as his eventual capture and return to prison in Australia. In his novel, readers got a fictionalised glimpse of the Australian’s years as a heroin addict, a prisoner sentenced for armed robbery and then a prison escapee who spent a decade on the run. It’s an unusual turn in an unusually eventful life. “These songs come from the constant experience of my life that, with love and faith, anything is possible,” Roberts says.
Released in December, it’s called Love & Faith, with lyrics inspired by characters and themes from Shantaram and the author’s recent six years of spiritual seclusion. Gregory David Roberts - best known for the bestselling book Shantaram (2003) - has a music album out.
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