


The band, which she formed as a teenager with Kelley Anderson, Nikki Kvarnes and Linwood Regensburg after receiving a hands-on education at the Southern Girls Rock Camp, lived up to the legacy Jessi embraced, of women who made unvarnished truth sparkle through the artful application of feedback and attitude. Those Darlins made three albums between 20 and became the noisy royals of the city's underground.

Years later, Jessi Zazu has made more noise in Nashville than most of its rockers can even dream of. She was going to play that guitar like ringing a bell. Though she was the tiniest creature in her remarkable family of drawers, painters, players and all-around makers, Jessi knew she was destined to make a sound that was bigger than all of them. When Jessi Zazu was just a little girl, her mother Kathy says, she would wrap her fingers around the neck of a guitar and strain to play. In the YouTube video in which she announced her medical diagnosis and ensuing chemotherapy and radiation treatments, Zazu shaved her hair off, saying that it was a way to "celebrate this new chapter." The original diagnosis was cervical cancer caused by papillomavirus, or HPV, which then metastasized. In December 2016, she first publicly shared her diagnosis, which had come shortly after Those Darlins disbanded at the end of 2015. Zazu's battle against cancer was widely chronicled, including in a long profile published in the weekly alternative Nashville Scene. Like her former bandmates in Those Darlins, Zazu (whose legal name was Jessi Zazu Wariner) used "Darlin" as a last name before the group broke up.

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Resisting arrest, Portable said no one can take him away from his Zoo.Īfter the whole controversy, Portable hit the studio to put his emotions into music and the outcome is ‘Am Not A Prisoner’.Zazu and her original bandmates Nikki Kvarnes and Kelley Anderson formed Those Darlins when Zazu was still a teenager - and their heated music acted as a forceful argument that straight-ahead country wasn't the only style that Nashville had to offer. Portable challenged them to know the reason for them showing up and went on Instagram live to reveal that a Yahoo boy hired 20 police officers to intimidate him. It would be recall that the Zazzu star resisted arrest when some police officers stormed his Odogwu Bar and Restaurant to whisk him away. Talk behind my back and see me call the police…” The lyrics read: “Them carry me go prison I no collect cloth, I am not a prisoner. In a line of the song, Dr Zeh (aka Zazoo) warned he would report any backbiters and person that calls him a criminal to the police. He shared a snippet on his Instagram page, in which he reminisced about his time with the Nigerian police and declared that he was not a prisoner. The highly anticipated song, ‘ Am Not A Prisoner‘, was first previewed by Portable after his release from court and police custody. The Zeh Nation boss shows no sign of slowing down as he continues to drop banger upon banger! The single which is a follow up to ‘ Prayer‘, serves as his 6th release for the year 2023. Today April 08, 2023, Nigerian street pop artiste Portable drops a brand new song title, “ AM NOT A PRISONER“.
