How Caribbean music and migrants changed British music

dear readers,

a year ago, in Paris, I started trying to spread the word about the impact, influence and quality of Bristol music (and street art) to the rest of the world...


How Bristol became a musical and artistic melting pot 

Historically a centre of the slave trade, Bristol is the hometown of a wealth of internationally renowned artists: Damien Hirst, Banksy, Portishead, Tricky and Massive Attack. Author Melissa Chemam says that there is a clear link between those two facts. As people were brought in from across the world, their cultures came with them. The result put Bristol ahead of much of the UK when it came to new and different sounds and ideas. 

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This scene has largely benefited from the arrival of immigrants and especially Caribbean people, as I explained and retold in this video.

The news of the ongoing persecution against Jamaican British citizens is really bringing the UK to a low and a breach of human rights!

See here:

'Waiting is worse than death row': tension and confusion before deportation flight

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/11/they-taking-me-now-tension-and-confusion-before-jamaica-deportation-flight?CMP=share_btn_tw

Deportation row: David Lammy asks 'when will black lives matter again'

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/10/deportation-row-david-lammy-asks-when-will-black-lives-matter-again?CMP=share_btn_tw

Never forget to support their rights...

Here is a petition:

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-deportations-until-the-windrush-report-is-published?bucket=&source=twitter-share-button&utm_campaign=715ef5f249-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_02_07_02_25_COPY_01&utm_source=twitter&share=4430bfff-8007-4de3-954e-ce9c78973370