Every time she wins an Afrobeats award, the internet has something to say. The internet is wrong. Tyla Laura Seethal was born on 30 January 2002 in Edenvale, on the East Rand of Johannesburg, South Africa. She is mixed heritage, with Indian, Indo-Mauritian, Zulu and Irish roots, the kind of background that makes arguments about cultural purity feel even more absurd than they already are. She grew up watching Michael Jackson and Rihanna, begged h…
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