Your favorite book, whether it is a classic novel or a modern-day bestseller, only has two guarantees when it’s all said and done - a beginning and an ending. Of course the reading experience would be bland if those were the only highlights. It’s the chapters in between them that supply the color, twists, turns and climax that make them interesting. So even though Alfamega’s name may suggest that he is simply a be all end all, you’d be foolish to think that his debut album I Am Alfamega is a flat line.
"There are songs on this album that will touch people, and even offend some people too," says Alfamega. "I’m not necessarily shooting to change someone’s life, but I think this is an album that will touch a lot of people."
Semi-true to its author’s name, I Am Alfamega indeed captures the life and thoughts of a man who had a rough start, but the chapters that follow tell a story that does not have an end in the near future. In addition to the 1700 songs he wrote while in prison, Alfamega also wrote three screenplays and hopes to delve into moving making in addition to recording albums. Though Alfamega has let go of his past, he hasn’t forgotten it, founding Kotu Global, amongst other initiatives to help people and families affected by incarceration.
Fittingly, from beginning to end, Alfamega’s offering of music displays a spectrum of emotion that only a man who’s been through hell to get to heaven can exhibit. So unlike your typical book that simply ends after it runs out of events, I Am Alfamega shines light on a life story that got interrupted along the way and can only be done justice if sequels follow.