The famous Janelle Monáe Robinson is an American singer, rapper, and actress. She is signed to Atlantic Records, as well as to her imprint, the Wondaland Arts Society. Monáe has received eight Grammy Award nominations. Monáe won an MTV Video Music Award and the ASCAP Vanguard Award in 2010.
In 2016, Monáe made her theatrical film debut in two high-profile productions; Monáe starred in Hidden Figures as NASA mathematician and aerospace engineer Mary Jackson, and also starred in Moonlight. Hidden Figures was a box office success, while Moonlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 89th annual ceremony. She has since starred in Harriet (2019), Antebellum (2020), and Glass Onion (2022).
As a teenager, Monáe was enrolled in the Coterie Theater’s Young Playwrights’ Round Table, which began writing musicals. One musical, completed when she was around the age of 12, was inspired by the 1979 Stevie Wonder album Journey Through “The Secret Life of Plants.
Janelle Monáe siblings: Who are Janelle Monáe’s siblings?
Janelle Monáe has a younger sister, Kimmy. In April 2022, she came out publicly as non-binary on the Red Table Talk saying, I’m nonbinary, so I just don’t see myself as a woman, solely … I feel like god is so much bigger than the ‘he’ or the ‘she.’ And if I am from God, I am everything. In the interview, she also acknowledged having been in both monogamous and polyamorous relationships
