I had never heard of music by Prudence until I watched the Oscars last Sunday and it just gripped me. I love such stories, I have been in one of them. There is a man in my village who just like prudence has a disability, blind. And just like Prudence, he is despised. And just like Prudence he loves to sing. He is now back to school after ten more than ten years at home living in abject poverty. My husband and I helped pay his school fees, I thank God, it was a dream come true for me.
I went to the music by prudence website and read her story and now I know that more than anything you can overcome anything in life. Hope and Faith are powerful beyond any forces of nature or your life path.
Here is part of the speech given by Roger Williams the producer and director of Music by Prudence.
My film focuses on a band of disabled kids, and the school they’re in. But I knew even before I went there, that the film had to have a central character, and it was obvious it would be Prudence. It became more obvious when I met her. Oh my God, I thought, she’s charismatic and brilliant, and engaging. She’s a very independent person, and she prides herself in doing what she can. But there are limitations. She gets frustrated by her challenges: going to the bathroom, eating, rolling down roads marked by potholes.
During our first interview Prudence told me things about her childhood that she never told anyone before. She cried, and I cried. In the process of being interviewed: you become self-reflective; it’s like being in therapy. She couldn’t wait to tell her story. Nobody had ever heard her story before, or asked. Afterwards, I went to the place where I was staying. I cried and cried and cried. I was just devastated. I was so moved by her strength, her ability to get beyond the moment when she was at her lowest. I was determined to get her story out there, and tell it to the world.
Music by Prudence traces the path of this little girl, and her remarkable transcendence from a world of hatred and superstition into one of music, love, and possibility.
Read more in their blog here Music by Prudence » Thank you, Prudence!













