Ex-con seeks to spread positivity as music producer
Dec 05, 2024
After serving 12 years behind bars, former cop Oshane Anderson said his experiences drove him into a fulfilling world of “positivity” as he now embraces a new life as a music producer. Anderson said
Anderson said drawing from the lessons learnt from prison, helped him to realise he was destined to bring a positive change to society.
"There was a programme that we learn [called] 'Change your thinking, change your life'. That was a good programme that teaches you to be positive. It basically teaches you that 'if you have a negative mindset, then negative things will happen, and if yuh have a positive mindset, then positive energy will flow back to you," Anderson told THE STAR. He added that, while adapting to those principles and demonstrating a positive attitude, he was "praised" by even other prisoners who encouraged him to display the same personality upon his release.
In 2015, Anderson was shot in the knee while attempting to rob a National Commercial Bank customer of $5 million outside the Black River, St Elizabeth, branch. Anderson, who was stationed in Clarendon, said that though the situation was unfortunate, he tries not to live with regrets.
"I try to move forward. So I do not try to look back on the past and hold my head down. I try to keep my head high - at all times. So even when mi deh inside prison, mi excel, mi adapt and mi excel to any environment," said Anderson.
"Mi hear people seh [things like] 'Dem neva send mi guh teef' but mi nuh mek dat affect me. If mi did call dem and gi dem a money out of it and seh 'That's what I did,' dem wudda alright, but because mi get caught and everybody see it why dem waah criticise but I'm okay," a calm Anderson stated.
Anderson said he has transformed his life and is ready to explore his passion for music.
"From mi used to go [high] school, I mostly used to listen rap. I even used to do a little rapping myself," he chuckled. "Even when I write poetry and [recite it] it sound like a rap mi a rap," said Anderson. "While I was in prison, I met some producers who seh 'Guh do music man, music is good and yuh can mek money off it."
