Lily's Blog

This post is somewhat related to a previous post I wrote here about an unusual restaurant in San Francisco.

Atilla, one of our Hungarian friends is very interested in music. He introduced me to the song ‘Freedom Cry’ on the album ‘Boheme’ by Deep Forest.

Deep Forest consists of two French musicians, Michel Sanchez and Eric Mouquet. The song ‘Freedom Cry’ was sung by Károly “Huttyán” Rostás who was a Hungarian prisoner and the song was recorded in a Hungarian jail. Deep Forest’s website states: ‘A song from a man singing in a jail, which (sic) would liked to be free again. You can hear him sobbing while singing.’

The album became Deep Forest’s most successful album, selling over 4 million copies and receiving a number of Diamond, Platinum and Gold awards in 15 countries.

However the story doesn’t have a happy ending. According to wikipedia, though Deep Forest made money from this album, Károly never received any money from the song, and neither did his family after he died in 1986.

Here is the song

The words of the song are here on Deep Forest’s website.