Featured Acts
The station's own artists — the women who carried lovers rock and conscious roots out of West, South and North London. One voice at a time; pick a name to hear who they are.
Cherry Wilson
Lovers rock with the soul turned up — West London, the All Saints Road end of town.
Cherry Wilson came up where lovers rock met the soul import: Ladbroke Grove and the All Saints Road end of Notting Hill, a few streets from the Mangrove and close enough to Carnival to hear it building all through August. Where the South London singers leaned hard into the reggae one-drop, Cherry kept one ear on the American soul her generation grew up taping off the radio — and the result was a smoother, warmer thing. Devotion you could dance to. Heartbreak you could dress up for.
She was never only sweet. All Saints Road is pure romantic warmth, but Letters From Berlin is a melancholy that earns the word, and Take My Number Down is the sound of a woman who's spotted what she wants across a crowded dance and isn't waiting to be asked. That's the range — soft on the surface, steel underneath, the way the best of the genre always was.
Key tracksAll Saints Road · Letters From Berlin · Take My Number Down
- Roots
- Notting Hill / Ladbroke Grove, West London
- In the lineage of
- Louisa Mark, Sandra Cross