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Jesse Bernard's memoir, *Escaping Babylon*, offers an intimate cultural history of Black British music, tracing its evolution from the late 1980s to the present. Structured like a mixtape, the book weaves Bernard's personal life with recollections of influential artists, such as Soul II Soul and Dizzee Rascal. It explores how various UK genres, including grime and jungle, stem from the roots of reggae.
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Co-founder of the Mobo awards, which celebrate music of Black origin, as well as initiatives to encourage and recognise new talentKanya King, who has died aged 57 of colon cancer, was co-founder of the Mobo awards, which were set up in the UK in 1996 to celebrate music of Black origin. As CEO of the Mobo Organisation, which runs the awards and its various offshoots, King became one of the highest profile champions of Black music in the UK, while the awards themselves were credited by many...
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The Mobo founder, who has died aged 57, had an unprecedented vision: to give Black British music a glitzy and joyful awards ceremony. But her impact went well beyond it• News: Kanya King, founder of Mobo awards for Black British music, dies aged 57I first met Kanya King in the mid-1990s, when I was still reeling from the failure of my own attempt to target the Black audience via my newspaper, Black Briton. Kanya came along a couple of years later and showed how it should be done.
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The Mobo founder, who has died aged 57, had an unprecedented vision: to give Black British music a glitzy and joyful awards ceremony. But her impact went well beyond it• News: Kanya King, founder of Mobo awards for Black British music, dies aged 57I first met Kanya King in the mid-1990s, when I was still reeling from the failure of my own attempt to target the Black audience via my newspaper, Black Briton. Kanya came along a couple of years later and showed how it should be done.
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