COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — In the lyrics of a lullaby, Brittany tells her two children, “just know my love goes on no matter where you are.”
Having just given birth 12 days earlier to her second child, a girl who she named Ke’ziah, mother and daughter are separated as Brittany is incarcerated at South Carolina’s Camille Griffin Graham Correctional Institute in Columbia.
The lullaby, which Brittany has worked with musicians from the University of South Carolina to compose, is how she’s bonding with her babies even though she can’t be physically around them.
Brittany is one of four participants in the university’s inaugural session of Lullaby Project, a program developed by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute.
Lullaby Project “pairs new and expecting parents and caregivers with professional artists to write and sing personal lullabies for their babies, supporting maternal health, aiding childhood development, and strengthening the bond between parent and child,” according to the program’s website.