Pearl-Natasha, Rod Ramos and a musical treat by Camden Lock
June 10, 2024
Colin Randall writes: They were only there for a few minutes in the time we paused to listen.
But the sound produced by Pearl-Natasha, an enormously gifted singer, and Rod Ramos, who briefly demonstrated his classically trained guitar pedigree, was quite something.
Passers-by more fortunate will have seen more of them before Pearl-Natasha apologised for needing a break. The London air, maybe just the Camden air, disagreed with a visitor from up north, she said. I know that feeling; my wife always says the sky always gets clearer the more north we get on trips back to Sunderland and she doesn't even like Sunderland
I’d heard enough in the short time I was watching to know I was in the company of two excellent performers. This was busking at its best.
Pretty much as seen at Camden Lock. Courtesy: Pearl-Natasha
It wasn’t really the sort of music this site normally covers. Natasha was midway through Jolene when we joined the small audience, then came Wimoweh and, though I am not remotely an Adele fan, a breathtakingly good Someone Like You.
Pearl-Natasha Waungana Doherty is the full name, itself a splendid indicator of roots in both her native Zimbabwe and Northern Ireland, where she lived before settling in Leeds. Her spoken accent could have been from anywhere in the anglophone world.
Perhaps her acquaintance with the purer Derry air has instilled in her a love of Irish music. Next time we. can expect The Town I Loved So Well, Rod chipping in with Carolan’s Concerto.
We're in touch with Pearl-Natasha’s management and kind words have been said about this site. I suspect we’ll have further kind words to say in return.
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