Mis-Teeq singer Sabrina Washington told she was ‘too dark’ to grace magazine covers at height of chart success: ‘I didn’t know about racism’
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metro.co.ukracism’ until she entered the music industry with the girl group, also made up of Alesha Dixon and Su-Elise Nash.Still only in her late teens she was told her skin colour ‘doesn’t sell magazines’.And if that wasn’t shocking enough Sabrina claims her management at the time instructed her not to talk too much.‘It was bittersweet at times,’ she told Metro.co.uk of her experiences with Mis-Teeq.‘A lot of the times, because obviously me being a woman of colour, the team that I was with and everyone that I was around at the time, they said that I’m too dark to be on any covers and black women don’t sell magazines.‘I didn’t know about racism in the music industry, because I didn’t grow up in an area that had that.
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