Im mixed with Black/Zulu, Irish, Mauritian/Indian, and Coloured.
Race is classified differently in different parts of the world."
But Tyla is not American, which is where the confusion starts.
Tyla.Amy Sussman/Getty
Tyla initiallysparked “controversy"when a video she posted before her rise to fame gained traction last December.
However, some American viewers took offense to the term.
I never said I am not Black.
Its just that I grew up as a South African knowing myself as Coloured.
And now that Im exposed to more things, it has made me other things too.
I know people like finding a definition for things, but its ‘and,’ not ‘or.'”
“: “Asambe!”
