Ezinma: How Beyoncé's violinist is tearing up the rules
news Ezinma: How Beyoncé's violinist is tearing up the rules © Decca Records Growing up, violin prodigy Meredith Ezinma Ramsay hated her middle name. "I was so embarrassed by it," she says. "I was like, 'Why couldn't you have called me something normal, like Haley?'" She was given the name by her father, a mathematician from Guyana. Derived from the Igbo language of Nigeria, it means "true beauty" or "good fortune" - but Ramsay didn't appreciate its significance until she read Chinua Achebe's masterpiece Things Fall Apart. In Achebe's novel, Ezinma is the king's beloved daughter, whose spi...
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