Lights!Camera!Action! KC Picnic 18: Janelle Monáe Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 9/8/2018
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Janelle Monáe Robinson was born on December 1, 1985 in Kansas City, Kansas, and raised in the working-class community of Quindaro. It is a historical district north of here on Quindaro Boulevard. She sang in her local Baptist church and appeared in local musical productions. She soon was producing her own productions as a member of the invitation-only teen writing club, Kansas City's Coterie Theater Young Playwrights' Round Table.
She graduated high school from F.L. Schlagle receiving a scholarship and going on to study at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City.

Monáe got her break singing backup vocals for Outkast in 2005 and later signed onto to Sean Puffy Comb's Bad Boy Records in 2006.
She released an EP, The Audition, in 2007 earning a Grammy nomination. In 2010, Monáe released her critically acclaimed first full-length studio album, The ArchAndroid. Her second studio album, The Electric Lady, was released in September 2013.

In 2009, she appeared on the episode, Earth, of Stargate Universe as herself, a performer.
She also was the voice of the announcer on the episode, The Boring Identity of American Dad in 2013. Then in 2014, Janelle voiced the character, Dr. Monae for the film, Rio 2.


In October 2016, Monáe made her big screen acting debut in the critically acclaimed film Moonlight. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay, from a total of eight nominations.


Released in December 2016, Monáe also starred in the film Hidden Figures playing one of the three lead mathematicians, Mary Jackson. It was chosen by National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2016 and was nominated for three Oscar nominations (Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress, and two Golden Globes (Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Score). It also won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

She has many other varied accomplishments as well. In August 2012, Monáe became a CoverGirl spokeswoman.
Monáe is also the CEO of her own independent label, Wondaland Records.
She has earned six Grammy Award nominations along with multiple other honors.

Monáe has said, "I've never viewed myself as "just" a musician or singer. I'm a storyteller who wants to tell untold, meaningful, universal stories in unforgettable ways. I want to do it all, study it all and find my place in it."

Monáe appears in the anthology series Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams that premiered in 2017 on Channel 4 in the UK and on Amazon Video in the US in the episode "Autofac".

Her third studio album in 2018, entitled Dirty Computer, was accompanied by a narrative film project that aired nationwide in select theaters prior to screenings of Black Panther.

Monáe also has secured a role of GI Julie in the feature film Welcome to Marwen to be released on December 21, 2018.

She typically wears black and white 'uniforms' on stage to represent her parents and all lower earning working-class people. She often chooses the tuxedo since is it universally accepted as respectful and an indicator of hard work and success.
Unlike her contemporaries, she purposely does not show a lot of skin in her show.
In her own words, "Statistics would say that I'm not supposed to be where I am today ... Neither one of my parents had college degrees, but they really pushed and designed me to be better than them ... I think about that Janelle [her Kansas self] and how blessed she is. She can't let herself or her community down."



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