Alexandra Burke has opened up about her experiences of racism in the music industry, from being told to bleach her skin to being made to change her hair not to look ‘aggressive’.The singer, 32, has spoken out about the microaggressions she has faced over the years, telling the Guardian: ‘We’re talking about it openly now because we feel safer to speak out.
Otherwise I’d be too scared.’Alexandra, who won the X Factor in 2008, revealed that things escalated after the show after ‘a certain person on the creative side who was working with [her]’ told her to lighten her skin: ‘It only really hit me when I got asked to bleach my skin after X Factor.’She also recalled another incident before a performance at the London Palladium where she was made.
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