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“The music that I listen to the most is probably world music, whether it's from African or South America or all over.”

Quote by St. Lucia

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St. Lucia is a musician whose life and musical achievements remain relatively unknown. more

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“When I think back, I felt like I had the life that a lot of white American kids grew up with in the suburbs in the States. I started noticing, as Apartheid's grip weakened, that we had more and more black kids at school; I had more and more black friends. But I never really saw a separation between myself and the black kids at school.”

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“I think I was just too young to even understand what was going on. When I was still living in South Africa, there was still so much racial tension.”

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“The racial conversation in the States is so multifaceted and multilayered. Obviously it's not always a positive conversation, but it's just so much more detailed than it was when I was growing up in South Africa.”

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