Rapper Lady Leshurr is the definition of tallawah. “It’s a word we use back home, from my Caribbean heritage,” she says. “It means strong and fearless.” Her dazzling performance on Dancing on Ice shows the fighting spirit that makes her determined to break down any barriers in her way.
And though she refuses to see herself as any kind of victim, she admits that as a black woman she has faced certain barriers. “We do have to work 10 times harder,” she says.
But her motto is: “Whenever I have a no, I turn that into a yes.” Growing up as Melesha O’Garro in a predominantly white neighbourhood in Solihull, West Midlands, she says she never saw colour or felt discrimination. “I didn’t even know I was black,” she says. “That’s how it was in my
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