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00:00Four British celebrities are returning to the countries their families once called home.
00:15It's super important to me. I want to make sure that the heritage and our legacy isn't lost.
00:19A little bit nervous now. It's about to happen, I can't lie.
00:22I'd love to know where my dad went to school or where he was hanging out as a kid.
00:26From the Caribbean to West Africa, they're tracing roots and rediscovering connections.
00:32This is the first time he was back in Nigeria.
00:35To culture.
00:36Two, three, four.
00:38To family.
00:39That was our last connection, like, to our dad.
00:44To identity.
00:45We come from England. This is where we're rooted as well, so it also feels like home for us.
00:50As Britain turns inward, they're turning their gaze outward, exploring where they come from.
00:56I'm very proud of Ghanaian. I love having Ghanaian heritage.
00:59Who they might have been if their families had never left.
01:02I want to find out more about the Nigerian film and TV industry.
01:06It's a dream of mine to record in Jamaica.
01:08And whether their futures could belong to both worlds.
01:12Ready to start making some plans.
01:13This is Mission Motherland.
01:16I'm Alicia Dixon.
01:21I've spent a lot of my life in the spotlight, from making music to judging on Saturday night TV.
01:29But this time, I'm stepping away from all of that into something much more personal and going back to the beginning,
01:36to a story that started long before I was even born.
01:41My roots reach all the way to Jamaica.
01:44But before I explore where my family story began, I've got to start with mine.
01:49I grew up in a predominantly white area in a small town in Hertfordshire.
01:57I was the only mixed-race person in my primary school.
02:02So I was always aware that I was different.
02:05But fortunately for me, Jamaica came to me before I went to Jamaica because it was in the family households.
02:13Especially Nanny Clem.
02:17Back when she was alive, she was the matriarch of the family.
02:22Her incredible rum cake, which she is famous for.
02:29Nanny dancing to her reggae music.
02:31She loved her music.
02:33She had a real hearty Jamaican laugh.
02:37That's where I get my dirty laugh from.
02:39Dad was taking me to Reggae Sun Splash or Notting Hill Carnival.
02:46Uncle Leroy is my dad's younger brother.
02:48He taught me how to MC.
02:50He DJed on a radio station.
02:54He was just a natural on the mic.
02:56Like, it just used to flow and he just had a really good tone and a really good vibe.
03:00It was my uncle and his love of MC and that first inspired me to try it when I was 17.
03:12He taught me this lyric and I would basically repeat this lyric over and over again.
03:16Here we go, here we go.
03:17Move to the beat and go with the flow.
03:19Come, come, gimme, gimme, gimme more.
03:20Move to the beat, go with the...
03:22Come, rock to the beat.
03:23Come, cuddle people.
03:25Get a pern up, cuddle MC.
03:26Something silly.
03:28And one day, I was in a club and a friend dared me to go up on the mic.
03:34And then people responded and I was like, oh!
03:38I wasn't expecting that.
03:39This was just a dare.
03:41And it was from that moment that I decided to start writing my own lyrics.
03:44so the music just the lifestyle of being you know part of a jamaican family i never felt
03:52disconnected from it it was just my normality don't know anything different
03:57a sunday roast with my white family or i'm eating my rice and peas with my black family
04:05it doesn't matter i belong to both i'm proud to be from this country proud of my heritage
04:12i think that black culture has made such an impact on the world let alone just the uk
04:20we should be proud of proud of that i was in my early 20s when i first went to jamaica
04:29unfortunately we were never taken to jamaica as children dad never took us i mean he had a lot
04:35kids every time i go to jamaica i get a deeper understanding of my dad my nan my family but
04:46yeah definitely a few unanswered questions my nan was a bit of a secret squirrel you just didn't pry
04:51too much because it didn't feel appropriate she was funny she was strict you didn't mess with her
04:56like she put you in your place and she was a very strong opinionated lady so i always grew up
05:04just accepting that nan was born in jamaica she chose to come to the uk once she was settled she
05:11sent for my dad and they started a new life here so i never really knew anything past that i would love
05:17to know the area that my dad grew up where he went to school or where he was hanging out as a kid and
05:24what his life looked like i never got to meet granddad rupert which was my dad's birth dad he
05:29never came over to the uk he stayed in jamaica him and my nan separated but i don't know when i don't
05:37know why it's almost like a missing piece of a puzzle i always wondered if i was brought up in jamaica
05:44what would that life look like for me i never got the chance to ask nan these questions before she
05:50passed in 2017 and my dad lives in thailand now so i'm going to jamaica to find some answers
05:56growing up i was always told our family came from the seaside town of lucy near montego bay
06:04i've been to the area before but i haven't spent much time there i've started up a family whatsapp
06:11to do a bit of digging and i found out we're not actually from lucy we're from a tiny hilltop
06:17village called tobolski and apparently we've still got some land there this trip feels different
06:24i'm not just going there to drink a liquor red striped sorrel and sit on the beach and listen
06:29to some music i'm going to do a bit of investigating i'm sure there'll come a day that my children
06:37henea and azura will want to learn about their heritage they've got nigerian blood in them
06:42they've got jamaican blood in them and they're raised in the uk so naturally as human beings
06:47we get to a point in our lives where we want to learn more about where we come from
06:51i can only tell them little bits about our family's life before nan came to the uk
06:57i don't want my girls to grow up with the same gaps and questions that i've got today
07:02jamaica is the king when it comes to good vibration great music
07:08the thing that grounded me when i didn't have the answers was always music
07:13when i'm at home i'm still listening to the songs that i grew up listening to lovers rock
07:20and reggae like bob marley's music as jesus christ in music form whenever i'm feeling a
07:26way about anything just listen to a bit of bob and it sorts everything out
07:30the way i emcee the rhythm the flow the energy it all comes from jamaican sound system culture
07:40where djs would hype up the crowd and ride the beat i want to trace the roots of my musicality
07:47to understand where that creative fire in me comes from and i also want to see how that same spirit
07:53shapes artists in jamaica today what it means to grow create and make music there
07:58i really really want to record out in jamaica i'd love to spend a period of time writing in jamaica
08:05and just see how that feels and what that inspires
08:10i'm not making this journey alone i'm bringing two of my brothers with me
08:16adrian is the brother that when i'm in jamaica with him sometimes the locals think he's jamaican
08:22jerome is the brother from in jamaica with him in in foreign
08:26jerome is annoyingly smart and likes to be right but he is right a lot of the time
08:36please cut that out don't want him to see that
08:38jerome is a very inquisitive person he adored my nanny clem like jerome actually lived with nanny
08:48clem for a short while the first time i went to jamaica was last year i've heard little
08:54bits about where uh my dad grew up um i know a little bit about kind of uh the area that the
09:00family are from and i've heard some stories from like my nan uh but generally a lot of it's going
09:05to be new to me so i'm really excited to actually find out where the family grew up and where the family
09:10loop landing up on my gate said y'all got dead boy adrian his outlook on life is so beautiful
09:17double six leave it there he's one of the realest people i know i can't believe they're going to
09:23actually hear me talking about them like this but i won the lottery getting adrian as a big brother
09:27out of all the siblings adrian has been to jamaica the most
09:33my little sister leanne can't join us but we'll be keeping her in the loop she won't miss a thing
09:38we've all grown up with different mums we're all dixons and very alike in many ways
09:45we got our surname dixon from our dad's father rupert
09:50though none of us ever met him before he died our nan's surname was cockins
09:58whenever i go to jamaica i can't believe that anyone would ever want to leave it you know so
10:03be interesting to find out more about why nanny clem came to the uk in the first place why she
10:08never returned i'd like to think we're going to find out some information that we didn't know about
10:12the family before what did i roll two and a one i'm having a terrible game why did nan and rupert never
10:19get married no idea never asked that roll again come on jamaica's always been this little island with
10:27a big voice full of rhythm pride and soul after the war britain called on people from across the
10:34commonwealth to help rebuild the country my nanny clem was part of the windrush generation
10:41she came to england to set up a home in the early 60s while my dad melvin stayed in jamaica with his
10:47grandmother once nan was settled dad was then sent to join her i mean i travel so much with my job so
10:55my children are used to seeing me jetting here there and everywhere but i get to seven days and
11:00i'm like i need to get back to my babies so i couldn't imagine like leaving going to another
11:05country and then saying see you in two years to my children all i know is as a mom that would be a
11:11really really really tough thing to do she made the brave decision to leave everything behind i hope i
11:17can find out why she made that choice we're leaving london for montego bay the gateway to jamaica's
11:25northwest coast just up the road is lucy the seaside town i always thought our family was from
11:34i've been to this market before it's the best place to get avocado and anyone who knows me knows i'm
11:40obsessed it's pear season i've been craving them ever since i landed you have any pair oh you do are
11:47they ripe i'll get one for leanne because she wants one right got my pair now back to the mission
11:58i'd love to know where nanny clem lived in jamaica i would be really curious to actually see exactly where
12:05my dad grew up because i can literally go to the place that my mom was born i've seen the area that
12:10my mom grew up in i live near the area that my mom grew up in i've seen that i know what that looks
12:15like but specifically where he was i'd be really curious to see
12:20i'm alicia dixon and i'm heading to jamaica to find out who my nan was before she moved to the uk
12:37and to understand where my dad's story really began
12:42we're heading about an hour inland up into the mountains to a tiny rural village called tobolski
12:48it's so rural hardly anyone around here knows its location or even its name i've been chatting on
12:55the family whatsapp with my second cousin david someone i've never met before but he knows
13:00exactly where to bolski is when we come to jamaica we're usually in the grill ochi or kingston
13:10so yeah for us to go deep into the country is going to be good yeah nobody's heard of what's it called
13:17to boski no one's heard of him i'd quite like to know where dad went to school it would just be
13:23nice to see where he grew up and yeah get a sense of what that life was like before coming to the uk
13:30which is worlds apart worlds definitely lived in country when he was out here our cousin margaret is
13:38here with david she goes to jamaica every year and splits her time between jamaica and the uk and
13:44she's in town for her birthday party oh that's so pretty where is the famous david
13:55i don't know who to say hi to first my dad margaret and david all cousins
14:08david oh that hello is that melvin's daughter yes clem's granddaughter yes so you would have been
14:18sarah and daniel cotton's great granddaughter yes lovely to meet you david there's so much about
14:24you this is melvin's son yes family brethren bring it in man what are you doing bring it in bring it
14:32this is jerome this is our little brother yeah see me and my brethren first time in jamaica second
14:39time second time how are you enjoying it i love it i love jamaica it's like home me too that's like me
14:44there so you're nanny clem's nephew yes so your dad's first cousin first cousin you're our second i
14:53you know once you get past first cousin it's just like we're all cousins then do you have many memories
14:57of our nanny clem yes you do the early days my memory of aunt clem you call her she's our nan yeah yeah
15:08yeah it was a fun woman yeah real fun you see i know who's a dancer right but somebody loved to
15:17dance she loved to dance right and what i was told you know melvin's dad both of them kick it off in
15:24the early because they love to dance oh well rupert loved to dance too and he sings well from what i
15:30gather okay so they kick it off for that okay so rupert loved to dance it might sound small but i didn't
15:37know anything about him before i just love that he met nan on the dance floor feels like the love
15:42of music and dance is in my dna so i always wondered about that relationship yeah rupert and clem had a
15:50wonderful early relationship okay you know i think clem was inviting him to ingrid really but i think
15:59rupert at the time he had a livestock farm you know probably with cows and goats and and he decided
16:11that he would not sacrifice really i've always wanted to know why grandad rupert never came to the uk
16:20i was always too scared to ask nanny clem maybe he just couldn't or wouldn't leave his land and livestock
16:27behind back then everyone in the area was connected to the land somehow and david wants to show us a bit
16:35of land that's still in our family right up in the mountains how far away from where we're going to
16:41be going today maybe about two and a half miles but the roads are not very level and it's winding so it
16:53will take you about 10 or 15 minutes to get up there just as we're about to climb the mountain
17:01the heavens open we're stuck for now but hey when in jamaica come rain or shine it's time to dance
17:08money money money money money money money money money money alicia reminds me of her on of my aunt
17:16clem her grandma she could mash up a dance and now this girl the same frame the same thing the same
17:24emotions the same rhythms yeah i'm just seeing clem i'm just seeing clem on the dance floor
17:30the rain's eased off for now better get moving to our family land before it returns
17:46i had no idea we were landowners right there was the entrance yes to their property so this is where
17:55sarah and dan started their life since 1914 when they got 14. your grandma clementine she was born
18:03right there your father melvin was born right there and all the other siblings this is where they grew
18:09up they're born here and raised there wow so before it all grew over like this what what what would it
18:16have looked like well it's two and a half acre there were different family members living on the land
18:23there's real communal yeah they would have done hillside farming was laden with petrol trees right
18:31pear trees yeah how lovely the whole world this place has not been worked since 1958 when he died
18:42while they were living there where were they living what does it look like well i remember the house
18:47was a wooden house with three or four bedrooms in it outside they had a kitchen and i remember it as a
18:58what you call it i would call it a brick kitchen right you know so you use wood and fire
19:05this was the road where our grandfather used to drive his mule and carts
19:10they were some of the first people from this area and around who were owning trucks coming from england
19:19our family weren't just getting by up here they were proper go-getters
19:25first to own a mule and cart first to start a trucking business
19:30our great grandfather became so successful he bought tens of acres of land across that valley
19:36but then someone tried to take it from him our grandfather was not afraid
19:46when he cleaned up land a fine lady came from great britain and said don't get off these land and
19:54say yeah i'm not going to get off so they went to court and the court would have you know gave him his
20:02rights because in truth and in fact he was paying taxes on the land david said it was the first case
20:10in the area where a black man won a case against a white man our great grandfather stood his ground
20:18why is it that the land is now empty do you think after world war ii people were selling their animals
20:24trading their land do everything possible to be under wind rush tourism start to take its shape but from
20:33the late 50s early 60s when tourism would have been you know position itself then people start to give up
20:42farming it was those land that dan used to transition yeah all his kids into what they would call a better
20:52life by buying properties our great grandfather sold some of his land to buy properties on the seafront
21:00that are still in the family today
21:05my family fought really hard to keep this land it feels a real shame to leave the last couple of acres
21:10left to grow wild david wants to clean the land up and part of me wonders should we bring the farm back
21:18i mean what i would give to have a mango tree and an avocado tree and a scotch bonnet plant
21:26in my garden i'd be the happiest girl on the planet yet here in jamaica there's acres of land just left
21:32to grow wild i am sure it's not the safest to proceed further yeah so let us try and get back to base
21:42okay i'm gutted we can't go any further after the downpour but i'll be back next time with my
21:48family not sure how much my girls love a bit of gardening but i'll be putting them to work i would
21:54love to spend more time there what do you reckon jamaica when it's winter here and then you come
21:59back to the uk for june july and august seeing where dad and nanny clem grew up i can really picture
22:07their daily life out here in the bush and honestly it's amazing and finding out my great-grandparents
22:14were real pioneers in the community i just feel so proud just as we're about to leave someone calls
22:20us over a neighbor who actually knew our great grandfather daniel cockins what was done like growing
22:31up then he was one of the wealthiest person in the community but he did have mule and cat okay
22:43so when during those days whenever a man have a mule he look at a look up as a big man
22:51mule thank god so it was a big man in those days in the community
22:58okay okay mruntings yes yeah yeah he was a helpful man in the community
23:07no it was just when you have sound insisting play in his house yes that is how he did have the dance
23:15part below the oh yeah yeah yeah yeah so he was he was the first man who bring a sound insisting
23:23really in this era in this community wow our great grandfather didn't just provide jobs he also
23:30brought the vibes he built the first sound system up here in the hills bringing the community together
23:36through music my mc style comes from this jamaican sound system culture and now i find out my great
23:44grandfather helped start that here music really is in my blood
23:49i need to call dad he's never going to believe we met his old neighbor we literally just came from
23:56the land i can't believe you lot were proper country yeah proper country bumpkins i can't believe it
24:06it's all overgrown there's nothing there now as a boy i used to i used to collect the water
24:12i used to go to the springs i got fresh spring there i used to go and collect the springs and
24:16bananas many many fruits there that was my job when i was young we just bumped into a man who has lived
24:24in the area since he was a little boy he was speaking really highly of your nan and granddad
24:31it was nice but wow it is far up in the hills where you grew up yes well i remembered it yes it is
24:39to be a six-year-old child in jamaica having to do some real you know grafting and taking care of
24:45the family and his due he had a duty you know to go and collect the water and i just saw that hill and
24:51that probably wouldn't have been no mean feat so then you think about your own children and how easy
24:56they've got it you sort of think there's maybe there's something in that you know this here is the
25:03living country like we've we've come way up into the hills and they was doing good stuff they was
25:10making good good money everything we seem to do we always do well in and it doesn't surprise me to
25:16hear that our family back 50 years ago 60 years ago we're doing well and kind of having that innovation
25:23mindset to to do better and to not just be comfortable with what you've got but just trying to
25:30do something extra or just a little bit better to improve your life and your family's life
25:38i had no idea we came from such pioneers people who owned land created opportunities
25:44and built a legacy that still stands today i can't wait to tell my girls how they come from greatness
25:59i'm alicia dixon and i'm in jamaica tracing my family footsteps seeing the world they knew before
26:13life took them to the uk i'd love to know when my dad went to school or where he was hanging out as a kid
26:21you know i grew up around the corner to the school that my mum went to and i know it really well so i
26:28guess it's going to jamaica and actually being in the same place that my dad went to school or grew up
26:35in that would feel really special because it just gives you more of a sense of where you come from
26:40my dad went to school around the corner from our family land his old primary school mount hannah is
26:48still running and david's been in touch with the principal nicholas james who's arranged for us to
26:53visit knock knock nice to meet you miss dixon's father was a student here at montana it's such a
27:04beautiful school thank you very much beautiful old but still beautiful because this school
27:10was built in the 1930s right principal james is really keen to show me dad's old classroom
27:18teacher good morning everyone
27:25we love your school do you have fun here yeah how old are you six
27:31six oh oh that's eight six i have a daughter who's six so she'd be in this class with you as
27:39well yes oh yes she'd love it what's your favorite thing to do at school read maths anything else who
27:47likes sport run you're fast yes i can tell i can tell what about you the principal's got a little
27:56surprise for us something to do with dad so alicia yes we're in school so it's only natural that i give
28:04you an assignment okay all right now in this book there's something very special oh and i want you to
28:12search until you you find it start start from the top start from the bottom wherever you choose you're
28:18just looking for anything that looks familiar maybe i need glasses melvin there you go okay so is this
28:29the date of birth it is 5th of july 1952 name or parent or guardian sarah cockins residence
28:38tobalski tobalski so would this have been when when his parents brought him to school on the first day
28:47on the first day this is what we call admission register so when they're admitted to school wow
28:53date of admission 24th of august 1959 so he would have been seven
29:01he would have just just turned seven so he would have been in that yeah yeah wow that's so cool
29:08so you keep all the records going back that far all the records good it's good stuff he told me that
29:13when he left school in this country here yes and went to england he said he was way ahead
29:21all right how much would the interior of the school have changed between 1959 to now painting mostly
29:28i painted i painted the floor they would have been beer when when he was coming here so same
29:32windows same doors pretty much the same idea wow i always dreamed of being a teacher it's such
29:39an honorable job but music and my passion for music just took over if i was born and raised here
29:46who knows i could have been teaching at this school the children are lovely the principal's amazing
29:51it's such a cool little feeling to know that this is where your parent and your grandparent
29:57started their little journey they were the kids they're very well managed and um they're very
30:16polite very respectful um and a bit cheeky kind of what we was probably like around their age um one of
30:24them shouted that they'd nutmeg me a few times i kept saying what was it salad salad salad yeah that's
30:28a nutmeg i didn't think that it would be such like a small like close-knit school it just gives
30:37us more information and it's more understanding for us about who he was and the life that he had growing up
30:45growing up
30:54any good at ludy david no i'm not going to bleed
30:59what is that role well it was a role that got me a six pass me the vows please
31:04being here i've heard so many stories about the musical roots that run through my family
31:09so david tell me about the musicians in our family music in our family goes way back yeah from
31:22um one of my oldest aunts and that is from the early 1900s who our grandfather used to take around
31:33in mewland carter horse and carriage oh yeah to perform at weddings and oh really and wakes okay
31:41and her daughter i live to see her do the same and her son whose name was newton cockins mort
31:52he was just an outstanding dancer and singer right many other family member who have told that line
32:01but just didn't get to stardom i was a student at the jamaica school of music where i groomed
32:07a number of young talents by through the root of music education okay some of them you know turned
32:15out to be pretty decent and the music scene you see you've had quite a colorful interesting journey
32:21with music are there any artists that we might know that you've kind of collaborated with or worked
32:27with well i was always around jittermore okay i was always around marcy griffith turns out david's not
32:35just a family historian he's got a musical side too he's written and produced for several jamaican
32:41artists i know tom cohen all his life as performing with the jamaicans yeah we work at the cultural
32:50commission as coordinator right of the jamaica populous and competition it's moments like this that
32:59makes me realize music really does run in our blood david's still grinning about me dancing in the rain
33:05when we first met alicia while you were dancing yeah i said yeah that would have been claim the time
33:13i know when she come back back to jamaica and we take her dancing she must drop the place
33:20she make young girl look full full when she woke up that body
33:25i can't even imagine it it's like obviously because obviously my memories of nanny clem is
33:32dancing sophisticated you know to reggae in the living room like as an older woman so
33:39she must have the place i'm not really shocked to be honest because nan always used to say like
33:43everybody they look upon me and my dress oh my god i was so like she would just yeah she would just love to be like the center of attention
33:53yeah she obviously loved to dance and she was like the life and soul of the party and yeah
33:57saying it now that she used to like go out and everyone would watch her just makes complete sense
34:02and i can imagine that she's just been yeah mashing up the place
34:17i'm alicia dixon i've traced where my family come from in the hills
34:28now it's time to leave and explore the roots of my musicality
34:35next stop for me is kingston the capital city where i want to learn more about the musical dna of jamaica
34:42cousin david suggested i meet naomi cohen daughter of his friend the legendary tommy cohen
34:50tommy worked closely with bob marley as a producer and mc and he's seen as one of the forefathers of
34:56reggae music naomi's redefining what it means to be a modern jamaican artist part of a new generation
35:04blending soul roots and reggae with a global influence i want to know what life is like for
35:12an artist that you know grows up in jamaica what does that path look like how do you navigate the
35:19industry what are the challenges what does it take to become a successful artist in jamaica and then
35:26translate that around the world what does that look like you know what would my life have looked like if
35:32i'd grown up in jamaica versus the uk in terms of my pursuit of performing and being on stage and
35:40being an artist hi how are you i'm meeting naomi at the renowned skyline level studio high up in the
35:48hills overlooking kingston yeah i i look at you and i think wow you're so blessed you've come from this
35:54incredible family who have guided you and you know you were being educated about the music industry without
35:59even having to try true you know it was just your normality but how easy or difficult is it for an
36:05artist to break through out here jamaica feels like the mecca of music coming out of the caribbean
36:11yeah i don't think anybody needs to go anywhere to make it because so many people look to us
36:17absolutely for what's trending to our country has what three million people the diaspora i don't know
36:22probably 10 and then so you have this expanded fan base much bigger than the island itself yeah no we
36:28went into a school if these children wanted to get into music and was all of them talented and
36:32everybody was talented but they didn't have a music uh program in the school which did the children feel
36:37like it's out of reach or because they see so many successful artists from this country do they feel
36:43like actually this is possible for me too in the schools i went to there was like basic music the beauty
36:51of it though is that instead of thinking so much about the technicalities a lot of people tend to pour their
36:55hearts out a lot more you know when i think about the uk and how many stage schools there are and
37:00i've got a daughter who's really talented her father and i have actually been quite keen to not put her
37:05in stage schools because it's almost like allowing her to just figure out her own natural swag i've been
37:12to possibly two vocal lessons my entire life right so i'm trained by ear yeah meaning i could harmonize
37:18with you right now but i don't even know if i'm singing the third fourth fifth sixth but i can
37:22harmonize yeah yeah heck out of a song you know it's natural to you because i've just learned by
37:26listening and then that's made it more soulful yeah but what i do like is that now that i know what i
37:31want to do i know i know who i am in my storytelling in my art and everything then if i do work with a
37:37coach they're not trying to make me somebody else they're just improving who i already am
37:42you know so naomi's album welcome to paradise is proper roots soul reggae what's even more remarkable
37:50is she made it outside of jamaica with british producer toddler t i'm curious to find out more
37:56about how she created such an authentic sound how many songs are on the album ah 12 12 and how many
38:02has toddler produced all of them how he's done the whole yeah we have co-producers but he's been on the
38:07whole project toddler t is a british producer he grew up on black british and jamaican music and you
38:14can feel that influence in everything he makes i love his sound it's a dream of mine to record in
38:20jamaica i've never done it so it's actually always been a dream of mine to make a reggae album can i come
38:28jamaicans are like we love to see our people doing the biggest and baddest things so like what you've
38:34done is an extension of what we're doing here you know what i'm saying it means so much that naomi
38:40sees me as an extension of jamaica because although i don't live there it's always been a part of me
38:51it's nearly time to head home but i can't leave without stopping off at tobolski one last time
38:56legacy's been on my mind how my family built inspired and gave back through music now it's my turn
39:14mission motherland is also about giving back
39:18so we thought we would surprise my dad's old school in tobolski
39:22with a donation of five thousand pounds to go to a special cause
39:28it's such an honor for us to be in the school the children are amazing and you're fantastic
39:32girls did a nice performance for you yes yes it's such a shame that you don't have
39:38an actual program program in place well so i think that's one of the ways that we would love to be able
39:44to help you we would love that we would really love to help you facilitate a music department so the
39:50children have got access to keyboards and drums and recorders you know because there's so much talent
39:56in there and it would be wonderful if we could help you and what we learned too alicia is that um
40:03when you prepare your lesson in such a way as a teacher and you incorporate music in it so for
40:09example you're doing the timetables and you can do it to a tune yes they they grab onto it so it's it's
40:14very essential in learning exactly so yeah i'd love to really appreciate that yeah we would love to
40:20it'd be an honor
40:23cousin david's really helped me understand who nanny clem and rupert were and the legacy that started
40:29with our great-grandparents i'm really going to miss him but we'll be back this is just the beginning
40:36adrian jerome alicia yes i want to thank you guys for making the effort to come all this way on the
40:46rocks to look for the ancestors and i know this could only be the start of something good to come
40:54we are one people we are going to unite for the betterment of not only for a family but for the
40:59bigger human family it's been an honor for us to listen to you and to get to know you sorry that we
41:06haven't met sooner just give thanks and big open yourselves yeah just really enjoyed getting to know
41:17what life was like for for nan and for for dad yes walking through his school like just wondering like
41:24what kind of what kind of child was he was he like a little bit naughty was he a little bit cheeky
41:28definitely nan was a little bit rebellious i feel like we have got a rebellious nature that runs
41:34through the family though i knew very little about nan and dad's life in jamaica before coming here
41:40but now i see it the country life the land and the legacy of my pioneering great-grandparents
41:47i'm just really proud of daniel and sarah and what they did for the community i've always wondered
41:53why jamaican music spoke to me so strongly even when i was little and now it all makes sense my
42:00great-grandfather daniel set up to bolski's first sound system and that so many people in my family
42:06share the same gift it just confirms that music is a major part of our lineage this trip has deepened
42:12my love for jamaica we come from england and it's we're foreign and we run we recognize that and
42:19understand that but obviously this is where we're rooted as well so it also feels like home for us
42:24and i feel so honored to be jamaican my family built a legacy in tobolski one of supporting the
42:31community and bringing people together i think we're going to really enjoy helping continue that legacy
42:37facilitate the school with a music program for the children as well we could get somebody great out
42:43of there yeah and now i feel inspired to and you probably feel the same with your kids you want
42:49you know it's about what you can pass on to your children and what we can teach them about making
42:53sure they know and understand their history and taking them to the land that our family are from and
42:59showing them the school and things like that see how the school develops in years to come and see
43:04some of the same students again things like that would be really nice that'd be cool yeah
43:34so
43:48so
43:54so
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