Rafeelya

Name / Stage Name:   Rafeelya

Show Title & Genre:  Wednesday Chin Wag with Rafeelya

Interests & Hobbies:  Singing, Performing, Song writing, and Maintaining Locs

Musical Background/History:  I have spent my life loving music and finding ways to allow it to continue to enrich my life by playing it, I attend many live music gigs and make music myself as well as support my music family by attending their gigs  

How did you get involved with GFM? In 2010-2011 if I’m not mistaken, I brought my children into the studio to assist their dad as a previous volunteer presenter and also was a part of the Saturday Soup Crew for a under a year (when I wasn’t busy with shows).

Achievements: My Children, Winning Britain’s Got Reggae 2017, This year I became the chair of the Community Legitimacy Panel which is so new to me but I’m always up for learning new things!

Musical aspirations: To be able to teach confidence through music (even though I am quite shy) in radio or in any other medium.

To hopefully produce my own masterpiece album in the next two years

3-5 Most Influential Tracks 

To Each His Own – Faith, Hope and Charity

Putting Up Resistance – Beres Hammond

Worldwide – Jonnygo Figure

Message to GFM Listeners:

Believe that you can make something special happen