4 Apr 2017

Music Feature: Leila Adu

From Afternoons, 2:25 pm on 4 April 2017

Her voice has been described as "like hot treacle on broken glass". Leila Adu is a New Zealand composer of Ghanaian descent who has a long list of notable achievements, yet you have probably not heard of her. 

Leila Adu is currently based in Brooklyn, New York and is a doctoral fellow at Princeton University.

Leila Adu

Leila Adu Photo: Supplied

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