Dione Roach and Steve Happi

Dione Roach and Steve Happi, Co-Founders, Jail Time Records

Dione Roach is a visual artist working across media, including painting, video, photography, and community art practice. Based between Cameroon and Italy, she co-founded Jail Time Records in 2018. Dione leads the artistic direction of the project and created its visual identity. 

With music as his heartbeat, Steve Happi is an activist, music producer (known as Vidou H), DJ, and filmmaker. In 2018, he was arrested and spent nearly two years incarcerated in the Central Prison of Douala before being acquitted and released. During his incarceration, he co-founded Jail Time Records. Steve is Jail Time Records' main music producer.

Jail Time Records

Jail Time Records is a record label and art project born inside the Central Prison of Douala, Cameroon. Founded in 2018 with the construction of the first permanent recording studio inside an African prison, Jail Time Records transforms incarceration into a site of radical creativity, producing music, visual art, and collective resistance from behind bars.

Contact: info@jailtimerecords.com