Entrepreneur Kanya King: ‘I came from a very noisy household’

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Kanya King was born in 1969 in Kilburn to an Irish mother and a Ghanaian father - she was the youngest of their nine children. She founded the MOBO awards in 1996 to celebrate Black music artists who were largely overlooked by the mainstream British music industry at time. King even re-mortgaged her house to fund the first ceremony, which was organised in six weeks. This year the MOBO’s celebrated it’s 30th anniversary. Kanya also holds three honorary doctorates, is Commander of the British Empire, and has regularly been voted one of the most influential female entrepreneurs in the UK. Robert Elms found out about Kanya King’s favourite haunts, memories and pet hates in 2017.