Culture That Made Me: Loah selects Joni Mitchell, Bjork and Game Of Thrones 

The African-Irish singer-songwriter also includes Rachmaninoff, a Malian star and Wings of Desire in her selections
Culture That Made Me: Loah selects Joni Mitchell, Bjork and Game Of Thrones 

Loah, aka Sallay-Matu Garnett.

Loah is Sallay-Matu Garnett, an Irish Sierra Leonean singer-songwriter. She grew up between West Africa and Maynooth, Co Kildare. In 2019, she starred as Mary Magdalene in the Barbican production of Jesus Christ Superstar, and this year in the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends. She also co-presented RTÉ’s The Heart of Saturday Night. 

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