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Fri 07 Jul 2009Janelle Monae: out of this world
This is the first – and, let’s be honest here, only – time we’ll ever have a self-proclaimed time traveller as a New Music pin-up. Acts such as Janelle Monae just don’t pop around here for tea and biscuits all that often.
Born in Kansas, Monae followed the yellow brick road to New York in search of fame and fortune and ended up studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. From there, she decamped to Atlanta, where she bumped into OutKast’s Big Boi.
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