Esther Bennett

Send us your thoughts! It would be impossible to have grown up in the multicultural melting pot of Birmingham and not have your very soul steeped in music. I was born between Balsall Heath and Moseley; home of Ocean Colour Scene, UB40, The Beat, the drummer Bev Bevan, the “Mostly Jazz Festival” and for a short while, the writer J.R.R Tolkien. My local high street, Ladypool road, now famous for it’s Balti restaurants, had at one end of it one of the most renowned...