Hip-hop star Coely: “In the delivery room were the gynaecologist, his assistant, an intern and a midwife. But it was just my husband and I” | Interior

She won an MIA and is hailed as the greatest hip-hop miracle in our country, but none of that fell into Coely’s lap from Antwerp. Raised in a family where there was abuse. Left home at seventeen. And plunged into depression. “I thought: what am I still doing here? I just wanted to kill myself. I was home alone and ready to do it, when an angel spoke to me.”