Malinda Jackson Parker

Her parents were Selina Malinda Jackson and Gabriel Parker, a pastor and musician who served in the Senate of Liberia for 28 years.

She attended school in Clay-Ashland and graduated from the College of West Africa in Monrovia.

Parker traveled to the United States on a government scholarship, where she studied classical piano and graduated from Morgan College in Baltimore.

Parker donated a piano to the Liberia Broadcasting System, reportedly with the guarantee that she would be allowed time on-air whenever she requested.

[4] The album's songs include odes to palm trees and bush cow (African forest buffalo) milk.

In another variation on "Cousin Mosquito", she draws on musical phrasing from Sergei Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp minor.