Chi-Chi tells Tubridy about her Mum’s heartbreaking storyPosted in Articles, Arts, Audio, Biography, Interviews, Media Archive, United Kingdom on 2019-02-20 19:06Z by Steven |
Chi-Chi tells Tubridy about her Mum’s heartbreaking story
The Ryan Tubridy Show
RTÉ Radio 1
2018-03-12
Acclaimed double bass player and professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Chi-Chi Nwanoku OBE spoke to Ryan Tubridy about the extraordinary and poignant story of how her Irish mother met her Nigerian father in the 1950’s.
“Theirs was an unconventional coupling… My mother was white, my father was black. Society was not in favour of this kind of union.
“As soon as my mother let her parents know that she’d met the man of her dreams, they said never darken our doorstep again.”
Chi-Chi’s mum did as she was told but received a surprise visit when her own mother showed up on their doorstep in London three months after Chi-Chi’s birth. She secretly stayed for a week and that was the last the family ever saw of her…
Listen to the interview (00:21:11) here.