Lakeshore Records has released 
The Fire Inside—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally featuring music by composer Tamar-kali (Mudbound). The score mixes emotive strings with modern electronics and vocalizations that vividly underscore the challenging themes of the film. The Fire Inside, directed by Rachel Morrison and written by Barry Jenkins stars Ryan Destiny and Brian Tyree Henry. The Amazon MGM film is in theaters beginning now. Rated PG-13 for some strong language, thematic elements, and brief suggestive material.
The Fire Inside is the inspirational true story of Claressa Shields, arguably the greatest female boxer of all time. A high school Junior from Flint, Michigan, aided by her tough-love coach, Jason Crutchfield, pushes past all limitations to become the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing. But even at the pinnacle of success, Claressa has to reckon with the fact that not all dreams are created equal, and the real fight has only just begun.
Notes Tamar-kali: “In composing the score for The Fire Inside, I sought to strike a balance in its support of Claressa Shield’s transformative journey and the rhythmic and percussive nature of the ‘sweet science’ of boxing.
An instrumental palette of strings, percussion, modern electronic sounds and brass provided the versatility for the score to flow through a myriad of experiences from the everyday grind to poignant and emotional moments to the epic stage of the Olympics. “
Track List
01. Opening
02. No Food
03. Fire Inside
04. Kicked Out
05. World Championships
06. You Made It
07. Marshall Eliminated
08. Build up to Olympic Final / Final Round
09. Olympic Champion
10. Ressa & Jason Fight
11. Get Back Up
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ABOUT TAMAR-KALI
Brooklyn born and bred artist Tamar-kali is a second-generation musician with roots in the coastal Sea Islands of South Carolina.
As a composer, Tamar-kali has defied boundaries to craft her own unique sound. As a performer she speaks her lyrical truth with a supreme passion and a voice that will shake your foundation and shatter your expectations with its soulful intensity.
2017 marked her debut as a film score composer with Dee Rees’ Oscar- nominated Mudbound. Her “expressive and varied score” [Variety] garnered her the World Soundtrack Academy’s 2018 Discovery of the Year award and has been classified by Indiewire as one of the “25 Best Film Scores of the 21st Century.”
The soundtrack for her score to Josephine Decker’s psychological drama Shirley was named The Guardian’s Contemporary Album Of The Month in June 2020.
2022 saw her debut work from multiple commissions; the LA Opera digital short, We Hold These Truths directed by Peabody-award winner Dream Hampton, plus a solo cello piece for acclaimed cellist Matt Haimovitz, as well as Tamar-kali’s return to the stage to perform Melancholy Ghosts and Other Mothers – a Beth Morrison Project commissioned song cycle.
Freedom is a Constant Struggle, a concert curated and co-produced by the artist and presented by Lincoln Center and featured the original work Sea Island Symphony: Red Rice, Cotton and Indigo; an orchestral love letter to her Gullah Geechee roots as part of 2023’s Summer for the City Outdoor Festival.
Watch Night, a theatrical work conceived and directed by Bill T. Jones and composed by Tamar-kali with a libretto by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, made its world premiere November 8, 2023 as part of the long-awaited Perelman Performing Arts Center’s inaugural season.
Tamar-kali’s 2024 artistic landscape includes scores and soundtracks for John Ridley’s biopic Shirley Chisholm biopic starring Regina King and history making Oscar nominee Rachel Morrison’s feature directorial debut The Fire Inside, as well as a live excerpt of her latest opera work The Swann presented in concert form as part of Harlem Stage’s 40th Anniversary season.
ABOUT AMAZON MGM STUDIOS
Amazon MGM Studios is a leading entertainment company focused on the production and global distribution of film and television content. Original series premiere on Prime Video, which is available to watch on hundreds of compatible devices in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. Original films are produced and acquired by the studio for theatrical release and exclusively for Prime Video. Amazon MGM Studios also produces content for MGM+, the premium pay television network, and Freevee, Amazon’s premium free streaming service.
ABOUT LAKESHORE RECORDS
Lakeshore Records is a GRAMMY-winning record label, and the soundtrack arm of the Cutting Edge Group. Lakeshore Records is the global independent leader in top line soundtrack album releases, including such popular, critically acclaimed and classic soundtracks as Bridgerton, Stranger Things, Wednesday, Fallout, John Wick, Whiplash, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Drive, Cyberpunk 2077 / Edgerunners, Star Trek: Picard, Bojack Horseman, The Walking Dead, Napoleon Dynamite, Red Dead Redemption 2, the Grammy-winning Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok, the Academy Award nominated Lady Bird and Academy Award winners Moonlight, Little Miss Sunshine, American Factory, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Hurt Locker and many, many more.
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