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TURNING 'HARROWING' MEMORIES INTO MUSIC
LONDON - Sudanese child-soldier-turned-rapper Emmanuel Jal admits that he had to tone down the lyrics of his new album, ''Warchild.''
"If I described everything I've seen and done, the record would be too harrowing," the 28-year-old says.
The autobiographical songs on "Warchild" - released internationally through Sonic360 May 13 in the United States (where it's distributed by Fontana/Universal) - still tell a horrific story.
By the age of 8, Jal was fighting in the Sudan People's Liberation Army, carrying an AK-47 rifle bigger than he was. After five years as a soldier in Sudani bitter civil war, he escaped the SPLA in 1993, when a...