adding that she was told she would "have to work 10 times harder than a white artist, because of the colour of your skin".
"You can't have braids, you can't have an afro.... You have to have hair... that appeals to white people," she recalls being told.
She said she was told: "You can't release this kind of music, because white people don't understand that."
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"Because you're a black girl, you won't make it that far in the industry... if you were white, you would be bigger than what you are now, you could sell more records, you'd be a Brit Award-winner," she added.
She said the #BlackLivesMatter movement has encouraged her to tell her story.
"People are people. We are all human, we all have feelings. So be kind," she says.
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