Janelle Monáe, St. Beauty

Grammy-nominated Janelle Monáe makes a stop in Charlotte touring her latest release Dirty Computer. The album, accompanied by a stunning visual “emotion picture,” continues Monáe’s legacy of challenging the mainstream (we can relate) and cheerleading acceptance for the black and queer communities in her music. Monáe has become the millennial face of Afrofuturism, which is sure to make predecessors such as the late Sun Ra proud.