{"id":151301,"date":"2020-07-07T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/07\/07\/bumi-thomas-the-glasgow-born-singer-given-two-weeks-to-leave-the-country\/"},"modified":"2020-07-07T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T14:00:30","slug":"bumi-thomas-the-glasgow-born-singer-given-two-weeks-to-leave-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=151301","title":{"rendered":"Bumi Thomas: the Glasgow-born singer given two weeks to leave the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite living much of her life in the UK, the jazz musician became a victim of the hostile environment policy. She talks about her fight to remain \u2013 and strengthening her rootsDuring lockdown, UK jazz artist Bumi Thomas has found space to spread out in her local park. \u201cI take my guitar and howl,\u201d she laughs. \u201cI love it!\u201d As the world starts to understand just how much black women feel they have to reduce themselves, it\u2019s soothing to think of a carefree Thomas filling public space with highlife and jazz melodies.She tells me about a Peter Adjaye livestream she\u2019s been dancing to and speaks with what she calls a \u201ctransatlantic twang\u201d, a blend of a Hausa accent from her years living in Nigeria, the place of her parents\u2019 birth; a distinct international-school American lilt; and strands of Glasgow and London. Then there is the influence of Yoruba, \u201ca very deep and brooding language that comes from a different part of your mouth and body,\u201d she says. \u201cI learned it later in life singing Fela Kuti songs. And there\u2019s a connection to the blues I grew up singing, like Miles Davis and Muddy Waters.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2020\/jul\/07\/bumi-thomas-glasgow-born-singer-given-two-weeks-to-leave-uk\" target=\"_blank\">Bumi Thomas: the Glasgow-born singer given two weeks to leave the country<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite living much of her life in the UK, the jazz musician became a victim of the hostile environment policy. She talks about her fight to remain \u2013 and strengthening her rootsDuring lockdown, UK jazz artist Bumi Thomas has found space to spread out in her local park. \u201cI take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}