Mike McCready plays with Amanda Knox and her singular band

And Mike McCready of Pearl Jam joins the singular band of Amanda Knox, the US town who spent almost four years in the cell for the murder, in 2007 in Perugia, of the compatriot Meredith Kercher, before being released and therefore definitively acquitted for the crime for which she has always been proclaimed innocent.

Knox, today 37 years old, after publishing two books and having also told himself in a Netflix documentary, has now set up a band, the exoneree band, made up of people “unjustly condemned”. Last weekend, the group performed at the Innocence Network Conference in Seattle, an annual conference that “brings together people directly involved, supporters and other individuals committed to freeing the innocent, preventing unjust convictions and providing post-crude support”, and for the occasion its members, including Knox itself, have been reached on stage by an exceptional guest: McCready, in fact.

To share the video of the performance was Knox herself on Instagram. “I am in the exoneree band. All of us have been unjustly sentenced, with over 100 years of overall unjust imprisonment. Last weekend, we played at the Innocence Network Conference and we were lucky to have been reached by Mike McCready of Pearl Jam. He and his wife Ashley are great supporters of Washington Innocence Project. Ashley is President of the Council” Knox wrote.

Reached by the ANSA, Knox then added about the collaboration with the guitarist of Pearl Jam: “We played some original songs, then also of the covers, including ‘Black’ of Pearl Jam. I also sung ‘I Will Survive’. A particular dedication? We dedicated the songs to our community of people unjustly accused”.