How come the music she loved wasn’t popular here?When Elmira’s Amara Pope-Sanfilippo was a little girl, she used to sit on the floor of her bedroom listening to the infectious cadence of R&B music on her iPod. Her parents were from the Caribbean, where cross-cultural folk songs with African and Indian influence held cultural sway, but that wasn’t the case on radio stations in Scarborough, where she was born. Then, as she reached adolescence in t…
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