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Janelle Monae

In pursuit of this world, Janelle moved to New York after high school so that she could attend The American Musical and Dramatics Academy, a musical theatre conservatory program. In this program, she fell in love with the soaring melodies and harmonic possibilities of classical music, as well as labored endlessly onstage and off to perfect her vocal instrument. Deciding to change the world beyond Broadway, she soon headed to Atlanta, the home of progressive soul and hip hop music to start her music career. Within eight months of arriving in Atlanta, Janelle had met Nate "Rocket" Wonder and Chuck Lightning of Wondaland Productions and begun work on her masterful debut album Metropolis. "Metropolis is the place I've been dreaming about all these years, a city inside your head. It's an adventure the music brings to life." Like a daring epic film, the album concerns a cybergirl's struggle to love in the futuristic city of Metropolis. The first suite of Metropolis (known as The Chase) was released on August 24, 2007, and it quickly became an underground sensation, landing on many best-of-the-year lists and selling 10,000 copies.


 

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