{"id":57637,"date":"2019-02-20T19:06:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T19:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57637"},"modified":"2019-02-20T19:06:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T19:06:56","slug":"chi-chi-tells-tubridy-about-her-mums-heartbreaking-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57637","title":{"rendered":"Chi-Chi tells Tubridy about her Mum’s heartbreaking story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chi-Chi tells Tubridy about her Mum’s heartbreaking story<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Ryan Tubridy Show<\/a>
\nRT\u00c9 Radio 1<\/a>
\n2018-03-12<\/p>\n

\"Chi<\/a>
\nChi-Chi Nwanoku<\/small><\/a><\/p>\n

Acclaimed double bass<\/a> player and professor at the Royal Academy of Music<\/a> in London<\/a>, Chi-Chi Nwanoku OBE<\/a> spoke to Ryan Tubridy<\/a> about the extraordinary and poignant story of how her Irish mother met her Nigerian father in the 1950\u2019s.<\/p>\n

“Theirs was an unconventional coupling\u2026 My mother was white, my father was black. Society was not in favour of this kind of union.<\/p>\n

“As soon as my mother let her parents know that she\u2019d met the man of her dreams, they said never darken our doorstep again.”<\/p>\n

Chi-Chi\u2019s 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\u2019s birth. She secretly stayed for a week and that was the last the family ever saw of her…<\/p>\n

Listen to the interview (00:21:11) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,2850,1245,13743,8,10],"tags":[20919,1392,29514,29513,29517,29516,29515],"class_list":["post-57637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-audio","category-biography","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-chi-chi-nwanoku","tag-music","tag-rte-radio","tag-rte-radio-1","tag-ryan-tubridy","tag-ryan-tubridy-show","tag-the-ryan-tubridy-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57638,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57637\/revisions\/57638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}