When I came to LA and New York, I wasn’t really prepared for the amount of fear.” I thought that was normal because that’s what I was used to. The Mardi Gras headdress, Black people with native braids with feathers to the transwomen poppin’ in the middle of the hood with a bounce record. I thought it was normal, the things I saw. “Because in the beginning of my career, I was this confident girl from the 9th Ward. But deep inside, the girl from the nine said f*ck them.”Īnd on this album, Dawn was able to find that girl from JonLee Drive on the daring and independent ten track EP that radiates a sense of total liberation. “I had so many men in power telling me I was too brave, too confident, too Black, too ugly, too thin,” she told me last week over the phone, discussing the song. According to the album’s track “Spaces,” she lost that little Black girl from JonLee Drive somewhere on Hollywood and Vine. On her latest album New Breed, her first full-length solo project since 2016, Richard celebrates the young girl raised in the 9th Ward’s homecoming. D∆WN) has never been afraid to embrace where she’s from (the 9th Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana), or who she is: A Black woman working in the music industry. Ahead of her time in both music and personal philosophy, Dawn (f.k.a. Dawn Richard evokes a sense of freedom with her music - it’s always been that way with the Danity Kane lodestar.
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