The increasingly popular 'Reggae Talks' at the University of theWest Indies (UWI), Mona, continue today at 7 p.m. in the Neville Hall Lecture theatre (N1).
First it was Jah9, then Protoje, then No-Maddz. This week's speaker is the Swiss reggae artist Cali P, who now lives in Jamaica.
In an exclusive interview with Gleaner writer Jordaine Delahaye, Cali P, whose legal name is Pierre Nanon, said, "I started writing lyrics and singing in Switzerland when I was 14. There were positives and negatives living there. Looking on it as a whole, I had a lot of moments where I really didn't want to be there because I felt unwelcome. Not being white there makes people treat you like a foreigner at all times, and that can get really annoying."
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