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heart or their creativity,” she says. “I’m looking for Savia describes her grandmother as “calm,
people who’ve had trauma, mental health issues, soft, free and always a very popular lady,” she
racism, deaths in their lives, people who have found says smiling. Savia spent a lot of time with her
their happiness who are not afraid to say, this has grandmother growing up and her influence is still
happened to me and this is how I found myself or strong. “I learned a lot from my grandmother. You’ll
what I am passionate about. We all have a story, but see or hear me quote her quite a bit because I spent
it takes the right person to listen to your story to get quite a lot of time with her. To me, my grandmother
it out to the right audience, to let them listen to the was like having an extra mother.”
story and let that resonate with them so they can Her father was the strict parent when she was
feel like they are not alone.” younger. Savia’s parents had a very complicated
Savia’s wife Jessye is her partner in podcasting as relationship, one that is difficult to put into words,
well as in life. she says. “I didn’t know if they were together or apart
“My wife - I can’t praise her enough,” Savia says. because things where so complicated, which for me
“She was the one who found the platforms and the was confusing. As I grew up, I just kinda let them
pricing and how we’re going sort things out their way. To be honest, I think my
to distribute the podcast. She parents misunderstand me. They don’t know me as
does all the social media, she well as they would like to. I think this happens to a
helps me with research.” lot of children and their parents, miscommunication
The way Savia’s voice pulls people apart. But I’m optimistic to know that
changes when she says “my things could change at any time,” she says.
wife” is so sweet that I can’t Savia comments that you would expect her
help wanting to see their mother’s side, the Indian side, would pressure her to
dynamic in action. Maybe go to school and become a doctor or a lawyer.
Us People needs a co-host, I “But they weren’t like that at all. It was my father
suggest. who was strict, who had plans he wanted me to
“I don’t know. She likes follow,” she says.
being in the background,” Savia’s father wanted her to become a singer, a
Savia says. “That’s something goal she was not particularly interested in but at
that connects us, we’re two age 14 she wrote her first song and recorded herself
people who love being in the singing it. Soon she was entering songwriting and
background but love shining singing competitions. And winning.
the light on other people. It’s “I didn’t want to be a singer,” she says. “I’ve
a beautiful thing to be able to never wanted to be in the forefront of anything.
do.” I’ve always been a person who likes to be in the
Jessye and  background. But my father wanted me to so I tried
Savia met via
a dating app Louise Leanne Savia Ortega-Wright was born to and started winning all these competitions.”
and have been immigrant parents in London, a third culture kid At age 23, Savia entered a poetry competition
married since navigating distinctly different family dynamics. and won a substantial cash prize which she invested
2018.
“My mother is Indian and St. Lucian, my father is in creating a recording studio. There she began
Jamaican, and I was born in London, so I’m a broad producing tracks and writing songs for other artists.
mix,” she says. “I had so many different nationalities “I loved songwriting,” she says. “I always had a
in me growing up. I had the Indian side who had a passion for writing, it didn’t matter if it was writing
certain religion and was a certain way then I had books or writing songs. I was born to write. As long
the St. Lucian side, which is more my grandmother’s as it was writing, I loved it.”
side, who spoke more French and Creole. And then I Savia discovered writing as an outlet as a
had my father’s side, which was completely different teenager. She was bullied severely in secondary
in morals and everything. He was brought up very school, turning her into an introvert who rarely
Christian, very Pentecostal.” spoke. Writing was a way of expressing herself

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