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Continuing our celebration of Black History Month, today we focus on British rapper, journalist, author, activist and poet, Akala. Kingslee James McLean Daley, aka Akala, was born in Crawley, West Sussex, in 1983 to a Scottish mother and Jamaican father. He grew up with his mother “in the cliched, single-parent working-class family,” in Kentish Town, […]

Thankfully not “unsung”, but today’s hero is none other than stunningly influential poet, activist and positive human force, Maya Angelou. If you have a spare 2 minutes today, watch her delivering her inspirational poem, ‘Still I Rise’ (video below). Maya Angelou was a civil rights activist, poet and award-winning author known for her acclaimed 1969 […]

Tell us a bit about yourself and your background? Throughout school music was my main focus, primarily playing the piano. I decided against studying a proper subject at university, much to the irritation of my parents, in favour of a degree in Jazz piano, which my father assured me would only mean a life of […]