Janelle Monae
Janelle Monae
Janelle Monáe Robinson, known professionally as Janelle Monáe, is an American musical recording artist, actress, model signed to Bad Boy Records, Wondaland Arts Society, and Atlantic Records. After making a mark with her first unofficial studio album, The Audition, she publicly debuted with a conceptual EP titled Metropolis: Suite I, which peaked at number 115 on the Billboard 200 in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSoul Singer
Date of Birth1 December 1985
CityKansas City, KS
CountryUnited States of America
I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.
I feel like Harriet Tubman, except I am trying to free people through underground music, to free themselves creatively and inspirationally.
I love Fun. They're great guys. They're incredible artists and musicians.
Everything is about balance. You can't work, work, work, work without any play.
Android is a new form of the other, but you can parallel the other to so many different types of people. Even if you don't consider yourself to be the other, at one point in time I'm sure you felt like that.
It's a big universe. To stay in one tiny place is doing a disservice to yourself.
I know what I like; if you go to my closet, I have at least four of everything.
People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.
I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing... creating... it's in my DNA.
I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.
Children go with whatever makes them feel good - like if that's the color green or orange, they do that with their clothes. As I've grown older, everything reversed. My music, my personality - onstage those things became my colors.
Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.
People don't ask Jay-Z to take his shirt off when he rhymes,
I take goldenseal, Echinacea and cod liver oil when flying to boost my immune system.