Ms. Dynamite
Ms. Dynamite in 2011, photo by Prphotos
Birth Name: Niomi Arleen Daley
Place of Birth: Crawley, Sussex, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 26 April, 1981
Ethnicity:
*father – Jamaican, Bajan, Grenadian
*mother – Scottish, as well as English and Irish
Ms. Dynamite is a British rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer.
She is the daughter of Heather Court McLean and Eyon Daley. Her brother is rapper and poet Akala. Her mother has roots in Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. In the BBC Documentary Ms. Dynamite: In Search of Nanny Maroon, at 1:16, Ms. Dynamite said:
My family background is very, very mixed. Basically between my mum, my dad, and my grandparents, we’ve got Scottish, English, Irish, Jamaican, Bajan, German… What else? Grenadian. Kind of a bit of everything. I’m just a mixture.
Sources: https://www.theguardian.com
https://www.scotsman.com
Her parents are Eyon Daley and Heather Court McLean. Her mother has roots in Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, Scotland and doesn’t have German ancestry, this article says she is “Half Scottish” : https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/may/26/akala-grew-up-embarrassed-mother-white
https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/explosive-mix-2461915
She is Jamaican and Scottish. I read that her mother was born in Germany and grew up in the islands of Scotland
In other words, her father is Afro-Caribbean and her mother is British
“My family background is very, very mixed. Basically between my mum, my dad, and my grandparents, we’ve got Scottish, English, Irish, Jamaican, Bajan, German… What else? Grenadian. Kind of a bit of everything. I’m just a mixture”.
BBC Documentary “Ms. Dynamite: In Search of Nanny Maroon” –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G8dVDSJjws (1:16)
Why does everyone make a big deal out of being of mixed ethnicity, it’s not like it’s a rarity nowadays. I’m not hating on her, I’m just saying
Because it’s interesting
Yet if she was a mix of European ethnicity, nobody would care. Yet that is mixed .
She reminds me of Alicia Keys.