by Ngaio Anyia | Jun 6, 2020 | Community, Music
Klareice, 8 years old ? Everytime I’ve tried to post this in the past, the tears haven’t allowed me. This is who Blackbird was written for – this beautiful, talented, vibrant little girl whose smile melts my heart. This is LR Groove’s daughter....
by Ngaio Anyia | Sep 18, 2019 | Events, Journal, Music
One day to go until #blackbird is in the world… This song has been inside me since I realised at 5 years old that people weren’t looking at me the same as they were looking at my mum. The first time in Wales I was asked if opened my banana the way...
by Ngaio Anyia | Apr 28, 2016 | Music, Music Reviews
Pray You Catch Me The album opens with Beyoncé looking down with graffiti in the background, presented in fur and corn rows. A vulnerable admission of infidelity begins: ‘I’m praying to catch you whispering, I pray you catch me...
by Ngaio Anyia | Nov 4, 2015 | Culture, Music Reviews
Akua Naru was at The Lantern last month – a spoken word artist that has been on my radar for only a year or so after a friend compared one of my songs to hers (massive compliment) but who I thought I’d never actually get to see live. Originally from...
