Kelitha Spence, a.k.a. Special K, was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She is a first-generation American of Cuban and Jamaican decent. As a teenager it was the first time, she began grappling with her Caribbean identity and accepting her unique self for who she was. In the Lugha, she talks about her upbringing, being in an interracial marriage, and how to foster two cultures in one home.