The Mail & Guardian | 27.02.2026 06:18
The music we grow up listening to does something irreversible to us, something that settles into the marrow long before we have language for it, shaping the way we respond to silence, the way we anticipate a beat drop, the way we lean in when a vocalist stretches a note just a little longer than expected and even when we think we have evolved beyond those early influences, when our playlists become more curated and our tastes more refined, the truth remains that at the core of who we are, we are the music that first held us.
