Poet Singer Songwriter
Caribbean music has had a significant impact on the UK music scene, with a wide range of genres being embraced by audiences in the country. From the early days of calypso and ska, to more recent trends like dancehall and…
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African music has had a significant impact on the UK music scene, particularly in the genres of reggae and afro beats. Reggae music, which originated in Jamaica, has been popular in the UK since the late 1960s, when it was…
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Monopoly Money. Guys, thanks for stopping by again. So I released my latest album just before the bankers show who really owns this Monopoly money and who’s really pulling the rest of us. It was fantastic making it and I…
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There was still a clear gap between the writing of “good”, “professional” poetry and the poet’s personal life and deep healing, which for some reason was considered unreliable. At the time, although my poetry seemed large enough to contain these…
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Koollife, which is working hard to see a shift in perceptions of Gambian music, has also blamed the media, including all FM radio and television, for the low ranking of Gambian music. “One day, while driving, I heard an advertisement…
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Calypso, the type of folk song primarily from Trinidad though sung elsewhere in the southern and eastern Caribbean islands. The love of Calypso music is a mixture of love of life and but not taking it too seriously. Since the 1912…
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“There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain…” Walking on stage at my first London gig felt so natural. The small audience melted into faces of…
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