The Roger Sanchez Remix of ‘Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough’
‘A year after its release, it was still a huge dancefloor anthem and I was entering a world that would dismantle what I thought I knew about life up until that point’
‘A year after its release, it was still a huge dancefloor anthem and I was entering a world that would dismantle what I thought I knew about life up until that point’
The 1992 Roger Sanchez remix of Michael Jackson’s epic, Grammy award-winning ‘Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough’ (1979), was a tune, above any other, that marked a pivotal moment of my life. A year after its release, it was still a huge dancefloor anthem and I was entering a world that would dismantle what I thought I knew about life up until that point. I moved out of my family home, began an MA in curating at London’s Royal College of Art and became captivated by clubbing, mostly at the Ministry of Sound.
This period of my life was exhilarating, and study demanded complete cerebral commitment. The key thing that allowed me to study was free education. Tuition fees would have presented an insurmountable barrier to me – a kid from east London raised singlehandedly by a working mother. However, I received grants, not loans, to pay for a total of six years of higher education. My free education gave me confidence and forged alliances with an influential, generous and visionary peer group. My free education enabled me to become who I am today: a curator, who is black, who is female, in a senior position in the arts.
I’m a fan of free education. I want my generation to be committed to finding ways for more people born or raised in Britain, particularly those of colour and from working-class backgrounds, to have free higher education, too.
