Music legends, Adamski and Robert Owens have come together to create a unique dance track entitled ‘Black Butterfly’ to commemorate the tragic deaths of sisters Nicole Smallman, and Bibaa Henry.
Remixers Shadow Child, Captain Mustache as well as Mr.C and Leeroy Thornhill have all added their support and services to the track which is released 3 June 2022 independently by Million Women Rise.
All proceeds from ‘Black Butterfly’ will be donated to the charity Million Women Rise (MWR).
In its original form, the song was recorded by R&B legend Deniece Williams who has also endorsed this new and re-imagined version.
The women were killed in Fryent Country Park in Wembley, north-west London, on 6 June 2020 at the height of widespread condemnation of the way the Metropolitan Police handled violence against women. Bereaved mother, Ven Mina Smallman, maintains the police did not do enough to find her missing daughters early on and maintains there was a racist element in the police investigation. Their deaths are now the subject of a BBC documentary, Two Sisters.
Smallman, recalled her daughters’ lives in a moving victim impact statement “No one expects their children to die before them but to have two of your three children murdered overnight is just incomprehensible,” she said. There was widespread outrage when it was discovered that serving police officers had photographed the corpses, taken selfies and shared them on a What’s App group.
Adamski said: “Black Butterfly has deep significance in that not only is it metaphorically about the transition of the soul but also that the original version still resonates with so many in today's climate amid Black Lives Matter protests.”
