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Jah Cure - True Reflections

Music Video
ArtistJah Cure
GenreReggae

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Synopsis

Filmed inside Kingston's Tower Street Correctional Facility, the video presents Jah Cure performing and recording while still incarcerated. The stark prison setting, metal bars, cramped cell and surrounding inmates give visual weight to his plea for understanding and spiritual freedom. Cure sings about regret, isolation and the hope of becoming a better man, turning the performance into an intimate document of confinement. Rather than relying on a conventional storyline, the video lets the real surroundings and Cure's vulnerable delivery carry the song's emotional force.

Factoids & Trivia

  • The video was filmed at Tower Street Correctional Facility in Kingston, Jamaica, where Jah Cure was serving his sentence.
  • "True Reflections" was released while Cure was still incarcerated, several years before his parole in late July 2007. The song later became the title track of the album *True Reflections...A New Beginning*.
  • The recording and video were associated with the prison's Rehabilitation Through Music initiative, overseen by superintendent Gladstone Wright. The program allowed selected inmates to work on music production and recording.
  • The song is also known as "True Reflections (Behind These Prison Walls)," a reference to its central lyric and prison-based presentation.
  • Cure reportedly recorded the song and filmed live footage of the session under the restrictions of the correctional facility. The resulting video has an unusually documentary-like quality for a reggae release of its period.
  • Production credits for the song include Gladstone Wright, Duane Stephenson and Sonita Walker, alongside Andrew Prendergast and Joseph Bogdanovich.
  • The album containing the song was issued by VP Records shortly after Cure's release from prison, giving the video and its prison imagery an added sense of transition and new beginnings.
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