My uncle is from Trinidad, so, ever since I was 7, I grew up listening to Soca, the genre that's from there. It's my favorite sound.
I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.
My immediate family are from the West Indies - from Trinidad and Grenada - and I have relatives all over the Caribbean.
In the 1950s, when we went to Lord's, you had to sit down, and it was very prim and proper. It was only in the 1960s when we started to do well that West Indians started voicing their opinions.
I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.
Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.
While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.
I live in a neighborhood where there's a lot of West Indian culture, so it's nice.
For so long, the world has viewed West Indian culture as semiliterate and backward, which it is not. In my work, I have tried to give that world an exposure so the world can better understand it.
Plenty of people are intrigued by their family history. Growing up as the son of West Indian immigrants who moved to London in the 1950s and 60s, I was especially fascinated by anecdotes about the lives of my Guyanese relatives, which seemed a million miles away from Tottenham's Broadwater Farm estate.
My father was a taxidermist, not a run-of-the-mill profession for a West Indian immigrant. Having given up on becoming a vet, he settled for working with dead animals rather than live ones. Dad was a true craftsman, an artist.
Tribal designs are a part of my heritage. It boils down to the influences from my father, Viv Richards' side.
West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.
Well, I think that I pretty much grew up grow up wanting to represent the West Indies.
West Indian people had made their greatest single cultural investment in cricket.
I'm an island boy, so I love my reggae and soca music.
My father is from the West Indies, the St. Thomas Virgin Islands.
