Netsayi - Monkeys Wedding

Another track on the new album, 'Teenagers,' harks back directly to Netsayi's years in Zimbabwe. "It's about how you used to just hang out aimlessly, and what our aspirations were as teenagers.

"All we wanted to do was leave. Where I grew up in Harare, there were like, two or three million people, so that's a city, but it's small. We just used to think the grass was always greener somewhere else."

Born in Camden, Netsayi lived in North London with her exiled parents, older brother and younger sister until she was seven. "My parents had been in England for 13 years, my dad going backwards and forwards, because he was involved in the war," she explains. "I remember a little bit about being in London but I really associate growing up with Zimbabwe.'

Netsayi's music background ranges from local jit and mbira rhythms to the wider influences of American R&B and hip-hop, and Jamaican reggae. To this day, Netsayi quotes the music of Bob Marley and D'Angelo among her lifetime favourites.
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