Maine native Devin Ferreira has written a song promoting this year’s Boston Marathon that may become familiar to people watching coverage of the race on Boston TV station WBZ. The song, “Unstoppable,” got more than 83,000 views on Facebook within two days of its release this week.

A rap with a rock orchestration, the song is being used by the Boston station to promote its live coverage of the marathon on April 18. The station’s director of creative services, Peter Masucci, said it likely will be one of the songs played during the station’s eight hours of coverage as well.

Ferreira, 27, grew up in New Sharon but lives in Boston, where he is a director of performing arts at a Boys & Girls Club. He performs around Boston, rapping and playing saxophone, and was asked by the station to write and record a song for the marathon based on the concept of being unstoppable.

Ferreira, who ran the marathon in 2011 and 2012, said the song is about overcoming all obstacles in one’s life, and about the city of Boston being able to recover from the 2013 marathon bombing.

The video for the song shows Ferreira singing, as well as marathon route landmarks like Heartbreak Hill and Boylston Street, which are mentioned in the song.

“There are always things in your way, you have to feel like nothing will stop you, so I harnessed that emotion for this song,” said Ferreira. “I also thought of the 3,000 inner-city youth I’ve taught over the years, and how they are unstoppable.”

 


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