Rachel Chinouriri on racism in music: “Simply being black will make it twice as hard to be an indie pop star”

Rachel Chinouriri has spoken out about facing racism in music, saying that “simply being black will make it twice as hard to be a indie pop star.”

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The musician, who last year released her debut album ‘What A Devastating Turn of Events’, replied to a post on X, originally written in Portuguese, which had a video of her performing and the words: “I’m afraid she won’t be able to make it like Gracie Abrams, Olivia Rodrigo, Chappell, because she’s black… May God protect my girl.”

In response, Chinouriri said: “Well… pressed translate and feel pretty sad tbh but this just reminds me…you can open for the biggest popstar in the world and the internet will still remind you daily that simply being black will make it twice as hard to be a indie pop star.”

The post later read: “I have spoken about this openly since the beginning of my career, but I’ll remind you all that: I won’t let being a black woman stop me from trying and no matter how my career pans out, at least I know I tried my best.

“Lots of black girls aspiring to be in indie/pop music have this fear… I know it all too well… and I hope my fight to change this narrative behind the scenes and publicly contributes to inspire the future generations of young black girls to keep going and remember you are allowed to just be whoever you want to be and not what the world wants to shape you into.”

Read the full post below.

Well… pressed translate and feel pretty sad tbh but this just reminds me…

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