"You know, I feel proud as hell to be one of those women. And I am happy [it's] the type of woman that I am as well, cause I'm not like that soft girly girl," Ike said. "I'm really just out here being a Black woman as much as I know how to, a country girl who is rooted and grounded so it's also not that representation of woman that people expect either."
"Christiana, where I was born and raised, is a community where music literally oozes out of every fabric of the community,"
"And she would turn up the volume extremely loud," Ike said. "Thank God I didn't get, like, hearing loss from my upbringing."
Lila Ike grew up in Christiana, Jamaica, surrounded by a community saturated with music and a mother who prized a loud stereo. She released her debut full-length album, Treasure Self Love, which earned a Grammy nomination for best reggae album. She is the only female nominee in the category this year, in a field historically dominated by men with only Koffee having previously won. Ike embraces representing women in reggae while identifying as a rooted Black country woman rather than a stereotypical feminine image. She received a bipolar disorder diagnosis that prompted her to prioritize self-care.
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