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Janelle Monáe Robinson is an American singer, songwriter, rapper and actress. She has received ten Grammy Award nominations, and is the recipient of a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Children's and Family Emmy Award. Monáe has also been honored with the ASCAP Vanguard Award; as well as the Rising Star Award (2015) and the Trailblazer of the Year Award (2018) from Billboard Women in Music.
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Released album “The Age of Pleasure”.
Monáe released the single "Float" featuring horns by Seun Kuti and his band, Egypt 80
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Awarded Kansas Music Hall of Fame (2022).
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Wrote the cyberpunk story collection, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, based on the album
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Won a Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Program for her role in the TV series We the People
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Monáe portrayed twin sisters Helen and Cassandra "Andi" Brand in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, for which she received critical acclaim
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We The People, a 10-part series of animated music videos premiered on Netflix, created by Chris Nee, with Kenya Barris as a showrunner and produced by Barack and Michelle Obama
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Monáe opened the 92nd Academy Awards with a performance featuring Billy Porter that highlighted the many films nominated as well as films that were snubbed by the Academy, including Dolemite Is My Name and Midsommar
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Monáe tweeted the hashtag #IAmNonbinary, along with a quoted tweet, which trended on Twitter that day
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With her first lead role in September 2020 with horror film Antebellum, and another supporting role with biopic The Glorias
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In Brooklyn, NY, she inducted Janet Jackson into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival announced that Monáe will co-headliner the stage with Childish Gambino
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Inducted Janet Jackson into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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Co-starred in the film Harriet, about abolitionist Harriet Tubman
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It was announced that Monáe would receive the Trailblazer of the Year award at the 2018 Billboard Women in Music event, which was held on December 6, 2018
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Released album “Dirty Computer”.
Monáe released a sci-fi film companion "emotion picture" to her new record Dirty Computer
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Monáe released "Make Me Feel" and "Django Jane" as the first two singles from Dirty Computer, both accompanied by music videos and announced that the album would follow on April 27, 2018
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Monáe revealed her third studio album, titled Dirty Computer, through a teaser video on YouTube
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Monáe co-starred in the fantasy drama feature film Welcome to Marwen, by filmmaker and screenwriter Robert Zemeckis alongside Steve Carell and Leslie Mann
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Has Monáe identifying with both bisexuality and pansexuality
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Her Wondaland Pictures production company was signed to a first look deal with Universal
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Reporting in 2018 has Monáe identifying with both bisexuality and pansexuality.
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Awarded Black Reel Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Performance for Hidden Figures (2017).
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for Hidden Figures (2017).
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Awarded Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture for Hidden Figures (2017).
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Awarded Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award for Moonlight (2017).
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Awarded Black Reel Award for Outstanding Ensemble for Moonlight (2017).
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Although by the end of the year no album or single was announced
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Awarded Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast for Moonlight (2016).
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Monáe and the body of her Atlanta-based Wondaland Arts Society collective performed the protest song "Hell You Talmbout", which raised awareness of the many black lives that were taken as a result of police brutality, wi
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And has signed artists including Jidenna, Roman GianArthur and St
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Monáe was the recipient of the inaugural Harvard College Women's Center Award for Achievement in Arts and Media for achievements as an artist, advocate and feminist
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And the song "What Is Love" was featured on the soundtrack
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Released ep “What Is Love Remixes”.
Monáe was featured on Sérgio Mendes' album, Magic
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Monáe performed along with Chic at the iTunes Festival in London
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Released ep “iTunes Festival: London 2013”.
Released album “The Electric Lady”.
Awarded MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction for Q.U.E.E.N. (2013).
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In 2013, Monáe said she wants both men and women to "still be attracted to [her]" and expressed support for the LGBTQ community.
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Monáe said she wants both men and women to "still be attracted to [her]" and expressed support for the LGBTQ community
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Awarded Teen Choice Award for Choice Music – Single for We Are Young (2012).
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Monáe performed at the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo, Norway, including her songs 'Cold War', 'Tightrope', and a cover of the Jackson 5's 'I Want You Back'
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Released album “The ArchAndroid”.
Released ep “Metropolis: The Chase Suite”.
Monáe released her first solo work, Metropolis
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Released ep “My Favorite Nothing”.
Monáe self-released a demo album titled The Audition, which she sold out of the trunk of a Mitsubishi Galant
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Released album “The Audition”.
With the release of her demo album, The Audition
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In Kansas City, Kansas, and was raised in Quindaro, a working-class community of Kansas City
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Born 1985-12-01.
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