Cosima

In this episode of Joining the Dots, Don Letts meets South London vocalist and artist Cosima Ehni. Signed to esteemed label Island Records and with a background that bridges London, Germany and the African Diaspora, Cosima’s work is impossible to categorise. She channels the work of singers from Sade all the way back to Billie Holiday and Nina Simone. The 24-year-old swaps stories of what it’s like to be young, gifted and black in a Peckham manor where the dominant cultural force for the last few years has been gentrification. Growing up in similar neighbourhoods a generation apart, Cosima and Don find more things that draw them together than that keep their experiences apart.

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