Joe Duffy speaks to Nigerian-born Irish singer songwriter Tolü Makay about the acclaimed rendition of the Saw Doctors’ N17, which launched her stellar career. She talks candidly about the undercurrents of thinly veiled racism she faced growing up in Ireland and about how an emotional burn-out was her turning point for embracing music as a career. Having been raised in the intense culture of an African Pentecostal Church, she reveals that she now no longer calls herself a Christian, having studied Psychology and Philosophy in college. Now, the emphasis in her personal search for meaning and fulfilment is on writing and performing music, and on contemporary psychology.
