Laura Mvula: ‘I can’t make music when I’ve got a dirty kitchen’

The singer-songwriter on Mum’s Caribbean cooking, food platters with Prince – and the worst time to have a burgerI grew up in a little terraced house in Selly Park, Birmingham. The rickety old piano was in the dining room. I’d usually practise while the smells of mum’s cooking – ackee and saltfish – drifted in from the kitchen. A piano and dining table are practically one and the same in my mind.One church we attended had Caribbean evenings on Saturdays, where