Where were you born and raised and what did your folks do for a living? I was born in London. My family is Jamaican. My mom was a nurse and was part of the influx of people from the Caribbean to England in the late '40s, '50s and '60s. I have no idea what my father did, bless his heart, aside from being himself, and that's a whole other conversation. You encountered a lot of racism in your early years in the U.K. In your teens, you and your mother moved to Canada and then the U.S.