Download single now to help turn Gaza's tears into laughter

Today marks the official digital release of Lowkey's single Tears to Laughter through iTunes. Its rallying call of “long live Palestine – long live Gaza” has already become the unofficial soundtrack to many protests, university occupations and fundraising events for Gaza and Palestine across the UK. Lowkey and the single have already received support from the likes of Palestine Solidarity, Tony Benn (Stop the War), Lauren Booth (Aloha Palestine) and George Galloway MP (Respect Party/Viva Palestina). Lowkey and his record label SO Empire Recordings will be donating all their profits from the sales of the single to the DEC's Gaza appeal.

Download the track on iTunes or on Juno

George Galloway MP has issued a statement of support:

"The Palestinian people of Gaza have suffered and continue to suffer a terrible injustice. We need everyone of goodwill to give them whatever support is possible. Lowkey has produced a brilliant song to express his solidarity with Gaza and Palestine. I hope you will buy it and listen to it. Above all, I hope you will be inspired by it to do whatever you can to ensure that we all remember Gaza and that the call for Palestine to be free grows ever louder."

Lowkey is an award winning Hip Hop artist and poet, as well as a playwright and political activist and member of new supergroup Mongrel, whose debut album was released free with The Independent on Saturday. Having just returned from a tour of Israel and Palestine he has witnessed first hand the refugee camps, the destruction and the suffering the Palestinian people have to endure on a daily basis as a result of the three weeks of attacks by Israel on Gaza which, if Palestine is recognised by the International CriminalCourt as a State, will see Israel's military leaders tried for war crimes.

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