03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Janelle Monáe hopes to ‘be a refuge' during her WorldPride show
As a child, Janelle Monáe had nightmares about two people: Grace Jones and Prince.
'I'll never forget it,' the singer says. 'Prince was chasing me in a purple suit, and Grace Jones was just laughing hysterically.'
In time Monáe would become both a friend and an artistic heir to the two iconic musicians, each untethered by conventions of genre and gender and each capable of alchemizing androgyny and Afrofuturism into new forms. But it wasn't until adulthood that she understood the nightmare obscured a dream.
