Singer Beverley Knight says Windrush generation has been treated ‘abysmally’

Singer Beverley Knight said the Windrush generation has been treated “abysmally” by “successive government bodies”.

The 52-year-old, best known for her hit Shoulda Woulda Coulda, was speaking to the PA news agency after presenting Diversity Music Community 1st, in her home city of Wolverhampton , with a £244,452 National Lottery Heritage fund grant for their Windrush: The Music, The Sound, The Legacy project.

She told PA: “I don’t think the Windrush generation have been treated well at all, I don’t think they have really been recognised traditionally, the music was sidelined on radio.

Knight was speaking after presenting a grant to Diversity Music Community 1st (Yui Mok/PA) PA Archive

“It’s only kind of in recent years you’re seeing the success of the kids really doing well aro