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London Urban Collective, the acclaimed youth music project that turns inner city kids into rising stars of the British music industry, returns with its most ambitious project to date - an original Hipopera that sets Dante's Inferno in modern day London.

Thirty (30) aspiring artists from the streets of London were picked from open auditions in July and empowered to write, record and promote their own album for an independent release under the expert guidance of Freeport Records in association with Universal Music, Community Channel and Youth Music Week.

The album, Inferno, and its feature-length music video, will be released on CD/DVD through Freeport Records, Universal Digital along with its making of documentary Phoenix from the Ashes.

Harry Leckstein, founder of London Urban Collective and managing director of Freeport Records, said: "In the past four years LUC has helped more than two hundred (200) young people, from areas in need of regeneration, collaborate to produce four (4) albums, several music videos and numerous live shows. Inferno is the culmination of a great deal of their talent and hard work."

Previous London Urban Collective success stories include Johnny "Itch" Fox, who recently signed his band, The King Blues, to new Island Records imprint Field Records, Iman Osman who is currently one of the final three (3) artists in the Diesel-U-Music competition and Lady Lykez who supported Method Man / Redman and is currently recording her debut album.