Fury Young

Co-Executive Director & Founder (he/him)

Raised in the 90s Lower East Side by a therapist mom and artist-social worker dad, Fury Young’s path to social justice was less intuitive than one would think. An angsty city kid jaded by dreams of being a famous film director, it wasn't until studying genocide in a community college class that a seed was planted. Meanwhile, Occupy Wall Street and its We Are The 99% message was rocking the nation.

The throes of activism took Fury by storm, and in 2013, after reading Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow, Young started a project called Die Jim Crow. Blending his background in filmmaking and a budding passion for music production, this cinematic album venture would take him all over the country into prisons, jails, parole hearings, the home of Albert Woodfox, and many other places both institutional and wild.

In 2019, after years recording over 60 artists in prison and a dozen returned citizens in ten plus states, Young pivoted from a quixotic one-album project to an even more ambitious endeavor: starting the first record label in America for musicians in prison and formerly incarcerated. At that point, the groundwork had been laid with die hard collaborators like BL Shirelle, Spoon Jackson, Tenneson, B. Alexis, and Mark Springer.

Adept at business management and a deeply passionate artist, Young leads the FREER Records' Operations and Creative Direction. Fury has lent his earnest and inventive artistic style to the label thus far as music producer, creative director, graphic designer, and video editor. Always looking to better the business, Fury is set on growing FREER Records into an arthouse-powerhouse with years of staying power ahead.