by Ngaio Anyia | Feb 22, 2023 | Music
One thing I know about myself, I really don’t enjoy not being good at things! Music has always come naturally to me. Singing, improvising, and finding harmonies, I never had to work at it! So when it comes to learning a new skill around music, I get very...
by Ngaio Anyia | Jan 1, 2021 | Music
This has been a while in the making because it had to tell the story of Blackbird in its fullness. A celebration of Black women and the need for their voices to be heard and listened to. A celebration of multiculturalism and being mixed race. A celebration of...
by Ngaio Anyia | Jun 10, 2020 | Music
Sofar Sounds – Watch Here!!! It’s been a really intense couple of weeks and I’ve been feeling spent – emotionally, physically, every day has felt harder than the one before. I hadn’t realised how much I missed singing; music helps me to...
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 | Apr 17, 2020 | Music
Out Now on Durkle Disco As soon as I knew what We Fly was going to be, I knew which producers I wanted to work with. LR Groove I ‘met’ on a Uk Funky forum and was one of the first people to hear the vocals for Blackbird, KG played the percussion for the...
by Ngaio Anyia | Jan 16, 2020 | Journal, Music
I have been screaming for about an hour. Like a niggling memory I’ve been desperately not thinking about an application I wrote in November. After putting together a seemingly unattainable 6 months of self development laid out in a spreadsheet which looked too...
