The first of my series Behind Black Rainbows is out now, featuring my new track "Peach Velvet Sky."

I was rereading Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, which my Aunt, who lived in the U.S, had sent me in my teens. It is the autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, a young, enslaved woman, who escapes the violence and sexual harassment of her “master” by feigning her flight north. She hides in the crawl space above the storeroom of her free grandmother’s house, and she stays there for seven years.
This was always a shocking and wild flight of bravery to think about in my childhood. Jacobs bores a loophole so she can see out. She sees her children growing up as they occasionally play around her garret, and she sews them clothes by the light of her loophole.
“Peach Velvet Sky” is about what the sunset looked like through this aperture. She made a prison for herself, but through that prison she created the conditions for safe escape. It’s such a powerful and incredible story that I wanted to share on Black Rainbows and the final song I wrote for the album.
Visiting Stony Island Arts Bank helped to re-inspire me to share this story, so for the first of my #BehindBlackRainbows series, I wanted to share parts of the experience I had there with you all xx

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Looking forward to the album, can’t wait to hear more about the inspirations behind it!

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1st!!!! 🤓🤓🤓