I'm just out of a three hour recording session, of three minutes of music. It was really tedious, mainly because the person who arranged the choral parts isn't a singer, so whenever she was asking for something, she put it really badly, in a way that would encourage bad habits, or just be plain contradictory... Oh well...
Short story long, the guy who wrote the piece is the producer for the Corrs, and he's a really good friend of Nelson Mandela. They were chatting one day, and Mandela said something about music, which this guy asked to record, and he wrote a piece around it. I'm in the last three minutes, singing in all of the official languages of south Africa, except English, which is represented by mandela speaking at the start. It's a pretty awesome piece tbh. It incorporates the clink of his cell door as it was opened for the last time and so on, and the words are all about standing together and being united through music.
The road to celebrity continues.