quiet storm

soul singer. soul searcher.

[afrodite🪮🇿🇼 @brownsugaaaa3]

the whole “so much for pan-Africanism” when a diaspora fight breaks out does not move me, because even siblings fight. but they don’t stop being siblings. presence of conflict doesn’t change our common ties to the motherland, overlapping of cultural expressions, and DNA.

[Sean Garrette @seangarrette]

The way Fantasia shut down GMA at 8am in the morning. this performance still makes me cry. My sister was battling. tried to unalive herself. got pregnant by T-mobile worker who was married. Then the wife sued her! And then she released one of her best albums. whew!

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Sly Stone was a musical genius in every sense of the word.

[Melissa Sigodo @melissasigodo]

Today marks 9 years since the Grenfell Tower fire.

But 9 years on, there is still no justice.

9 years on & people still live in unsafe buildings.

We must not forget those killed because of dishonesty and corporate greed.

[martha @mxmsworld]

Trillionaire is obscene. I cannot believe it.

[Renee @PettyLupone]

Samara Joy and harpist Brandee Younger cover If It’s Magic by Stevie Wonder. 🥹

BONUS: That’s Alice Coltrane’s harp!!!

[Richie Brave @RichieBrave]

I also want to say, Kanya had her first child at 16 and dropped out of school. 10 years later she remortgaged her house and started the MOBOs after being told Black Music is too “niche”. Look at Black Music 30 years & £24.5 Billion later. She was unstoppable. A real powerhouse 🖤

[Ronke Lawal @ronkelawal]

There are not enough words that can fully encapsulate the impact of someone so committed to the profiling and uplifting of Black music in this country.

Ms Kanya's legacy is one of such cultural and community significance that it shall be known across many generations.

RIP.

[MOBO Awards @MOBOAwards]

It is with immeasurable sorrow that the MOBO Organisation announces the passing of its Founder and CEO, Kanya King CBE.

Kanya passed away peacefully on 3 June 2026 after a courageous and characteristically determined battle with colon cancer. She was surrounded by her family, close friends and love.

Thirty years ago, Kanya King remortgaged her home, alone, without institutional backing or industry support, to build a stage that would transform British music forever.

She was a single mother from a Kilburn council estate who was told that Black music was too niche, that there was no market and that the industry was not interested. Instead of arguing, she built. Six weeks later, the first MOBO Awards was broadcast to the nation, and nothing was ever the same again.

What Kanya created was never simply an awards ceremony. It was an act of cultural justice. MOBO did not just celebrate Black music; it legitimised it, amplified it and transformed the cultural landscape of the UK.

From Stormzy, Little Simz and RAYE to Craig David, Ms. Dynamite, Amy Winehouse, Central Cee and countless others, generations of artists have benefited from Kanya King's vision.

She built a platform that reached hundreds of millions of people around the world. She was awarded a CBE and received an Ivors Academy Honour in 2025. She never stopped. She never asked for permission. She never accepted that the word “no” was final.

When she stood on the MOBO stage in Newcastle in February 2025, just months after her diagnosis, she told the audience: “I never allowed someone to define my limits. Not in life. Not in business. And I’m certainly not going to have that happen now.”

That was Kanya King. Right to the very end.

The 2026 MOBO Awards, held during the Organisation’s landmark 30th anniversary year, will be dedicated entirely to her memory.

The world was a profoundly better place with Kanya King in it. The MOBO family is heartbroken, but endlessly grateful, proud and inspired by everything she gave to music, culture and future generations.

Rest in power, Kanya.

You built this.

All of it.

[Mel Smith @iamMelsmith]

I’m still not over D’Angelo.

[Tianna, the Writer @tiannathewriter]

DEI training told you if a white man is bleeding out in front of you and begging for his life, you should cuff him and let him die? 😭 And the British public is going to accept that as an excuse? Goodbye.

[Jermaine Watkins @JermaineWatkins]

Deniece Williams.

Free

[HBO @HBO]

The music you know. The story you don’t.

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson tells the story of the Grammy-award winning band chronicling their evolution, highs and lows, spiritual meaning, and lasting legacy. #EarthWindandFireHBO premieres June 7 on @HBOMax.

[music data @music__data]

Happy 60th Birthday, to the legendary Queen of Pop Janet Jackson.

She has earned ten Hot 100 #1 singles, the only act to score seven top-five hits on the chart. She is the recipient of 5 #GRAMMYs, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and has sold over 200 million records worldwide.

[goma @soigomaa]

Society so doomed, if a girl gets diagnosed with PMOS, the first concern is how will she conceive or become a mom rather than worrying about her who is now at high risk of endometriosis, ovarian cancer and cardiovascular diseases

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Happy 60th birthday to Janet Jackson!

[trudy knight 🇬🇭🇨🇮🇸🇳🇨🇩 @kimkimdaya]

im crying bc the uk is one the place where ppl say mixed all the time 😭 she’s lying through her diluted melanin lmfaooooo

[Ebsnflows💋 @ebsthegreatest]

I am reminded by this podcast that The Slumflower appeared on recently, that Nigerian men are dangerously and violently regressive, collectively. They're also so aggressively simplistic in their thought processes. Proper not keeping up and everyone can see it 😔

[Ari Lennox @vacancymotel]

To 7 years of Shea Butter Baby🤎 An album that changed my life!

Thank you for continuing to share how much this album has meant to you over the years. I love seeing these songs become a part of your stories✨