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Jay Kay, What's Your Problem? Not Being Black?

Lisa Verrico, Vox, July 1994

JAMIROQUAI'S 24-year-old Jason Kay (aka Jay Kay) was brought up in Ealing, West London, by his jazz-singer mother, Karen Kay. Inspired by the likes of Sly Stone, Roy Ayers and Gil Scott-Heron, he formed his now successful jazz-funk band.

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