Sing Your Life

In the fluff-fest of Saturday's TV schedules, there was a monumental documentary about South Africa and a life in song. The Moya family had lost their father and mother to AIDS, while the eldest brother was expiring, slowly and horrendously. Half the kids were living in an orphanage called Agape - a term used to denote unconditional love. The school choir became the outlet for all that pain, revealed in piercing hymnals and the succour of voices raised by each other.

The sight of the children singing at home, joined by the skeletal brother is heart-breaking. There's some kind of deliverance in that the choir is recorded and celebrated abroad, while the kids are invited to perform in New York with Alicia Keys and Paul Simon. The orphanage is burnt down and then rebuilt but the kicker is that 1.2 million orphans exist in South Africa alone.

For more information on this documentary, check out the We Are Together website.