Diarra Sylla (born 30 January 2001), is a French-Senegalese singer, dancer, actress, compositor and model. She was part of the global pop group Now United, representing Senegal, and left the group in 2020 to pursue her solo career.
This is inspired by the true story of a real-life, little-known American hero — Robert Smalls — who, as an enslaved person in Charleston at the height of the Civil War, pulled off the most audacious heist in history — a suicide mission if caught — by stealing his friends and family and the Confederate warship on which he served to run the naval blockade in the treacherous South Carolina waters and defect to the North.
