"I never bought any records till my late teens because we never really had anything to play it on when I was growing up.  I listened to radio all the time. I remember borrowing Kenny G’s first album with that naff tune, 'Songbird' on it. I Loved it!!!...When I finally started buying records as a woman in her right mind, however, Julian Joseph’s 'Language of Truth' was one of my first loves.

I actually ended up making [the black atlantic] tune in my childhood bedroom of my parents house in Harare, Zimbabwe. I wanted to communicate my journey, our journey as people.  I wanted to communicate that I am an African. I was born in London, I grew up in Harare, I lived in Bristol, I have since moved back to London.  I wanted to narrow the conceptual gap that exists between Black people in Britain and the US with that of Africans. I think there is still a lot of prejudice between Africans on the continent and Americans and Europeans, black and white.  Aside from the literal story in the song, I wanted to make our connection audible.

I felt like I had a lot to say because “Black Atlantic”: the title, the premise of this project is embodied in me, where I was living: Bristol as middle passage in the slave trade story.  Who I am now: Zimba-British. How I perceive myself now."