VV Brown on racism and misogyny in the music industry: 'If I'd not walked away, I think I would have been dead'

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Singer VV Brown, who returned with a new album in 2023 after a long break during which she thought she had given up the industry for good, is speaking out about her experiences to support a national survey of bullying and harassment by Black Lives in Music.

Six years ago, singer VV Brown was at breaking point. After two decades of frequently enduring racism, sexual harassment and 'male ego' in the music industry she had reached rock bottom. 'If I had not walked away, I think I would have been dead,' she tells Sky News. 'I was addicted to sleeping pills, I suffered from depression... and there was a moment where I tried to go.

and you've got, you know, something a bit different? 'Wearing shorter skirts, being told to dress provocatively to sell my sexual being to the punters, I'd get that all the time.

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