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Nashville program brings live music – and hope – to prisons: 'I've seen grown men weep'
Nashville Tennessean
Singer-songwriter Blessing Offor took his seat behind a baby grand piano at a recent show surrounded by a crowd most people would fear. He leaned into the mic and said, "OK, you guys, I am totally blind, so I'm trusting you all right now."
He needed to establish trust with the 40 or so inmates at the Metro Detention Facility waiting to hear him sing.
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