Warner Records Signs 12-Year-Old Black Lives Matter Protest Singer

Keedron Bryant, whose Black Lives Matter protest song went viral, has been signed by Warner Records; his producer said on Instagram Thursday.

Bryant, 12, sang about his fears growing up as a black man in America. The title of the song is I Just Wanna Live. Bryant will release the song on Friday, which is the Juneteenth holiday marking the end of slavery in the US.

Listen to the song below:

Bryant first posted the acapella gospel song on his Instagram account on May 26; the day after a white policeman in the city of Minneapolis murdered another African American, George Floyd.

Floyd’s death was one of the countless black lives lost to white law enforcement. The murder ignited the Black Lives Matter protest against police brutality and a national reckoning on racism in America; both in the past and today.

“Every day I’m being hunted as prey. My people don’t want no trouble,” Bryant sings. The original post got well over three million likes, drawing praise from Barack Obama to Katy Perry.

It also caught the attention of producer Dem Jointz, who reportedly added music. Dem Jointz said in an Instagram post on Thursday that he was “Thankful” to share the song alongside the Bryant family and Warner Records.

The US music giant will reportedly donate proceeds from the song to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).