We didn’t have much money. My whole extended family used to help us, and buy us books and food. It was hard, and there were things I didn’t want to talk about. But at the end I was a happy girl.

– Maria das Gracas Silva Foster

I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience – I can have any music I want, and I can get it immediately. For me and for a lot of people I know, there’s this musical eclecticism that happened.