Beldina Odenyo Onassis

Beldina Odenyo Onassis (born Beldina Awino Nora Kungu; 30 August 1990 – 5 November 2021), also known as Heir of the Cursed, was a Kenyan-born Scottish musician, singer, poet and writer.

Background Onassis was born Beldina Awino Nora Kungu in Kisumu, Kenya on 30 August 1990, before moving with her family to Lockerbie in Scotland when she was a child. She had thirteen siblings.

She worked with the National Theatre of Scotland on Lament for Sheku Bayoh and with the all-female songwriting collective Hen Hoose. She worked on several theatre projects and was developing a play shortly before she died, which she said was to be "about our relationship with the dead".