“When we were discriminated against, my grandmother used to say: ‘your colour is beautiful, they are jealous, why else would they go to the beach if not to look like you?’”
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In a conversation on ‘O Tal Podcast’, Telma Tvon recounts how rap was her passport to self-discovery, in a journey through rhymes that began in her childhood in Luanda and took flight during her adolescence, spent in the suburbs of Lisbon amidst the turbulence of adaptation. “You arrive and, suddenly, you have to get to know a whole other universe. People who are not always receptive because you are different, because you are that Black, strange person who came to their country.”
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