She has been frequently spotted with African braids and Afros, hard not to notice. African American music artist and model Solange Piaget Knowles has had performances over recent years expressing her prideful African roots. She also shares part of her passion with BUST magazine.
She is the younger sister of R&B icon Beyoncé. Two talented sisters. It is not very common to find two music icons that are sisters all in one.
Solange’s father is of African descent and her mother is of Louisiana Creole (African, French, and smaller amounts of Irish and Spanish) ancestry.
“I felt like when I took my weave out, I wasn’t pretty, I wasn’t noticeable.
Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God”.
“I actually love my natural hair when it’s in a twist out and it’s been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower”.
Solange had an interest in music from an early age and has been writing songs since the age of 9. In fact, she started her career in the entertainment business as a temporary backup dancer for her sister’s previous music band “Destiny’s Child”.
Solange has also written songs for “Destiny’s Child” on their solo albums, including big sister Beyoncé such as “Get Me Bodied” song.
“A Seat at the Table,” Solange’s third studio album released in 2016, became a first number-one album in the United States.
Similar to Beyoncé, Solange is a Grammy winner! Her single “Cranes in the Sky” from her album “A Seat at the Table” won the award for Best R &B Performance in 2017.
She properly gained recognition in the music scene at age 16. She has released two studios albums: Solo Star in 2003 and Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams in 2008, which peaked at number nine in the US Billboard 200 chart.
Solange Knowles has also ventured into film, modeling, and entrepreneurship. She co-launched the junior apparel collection Deréon, a sister line to House of Deréon that was established by her mother and sister.
In an interview with BUST magazine, Solange expressed how she “felt the sisterhood of black women everywhere” as a result of her upbringing, I share with Solange that her conscious lyrics have created for many, including myself, a sense of spaciousness and possibility in the midst of a tense and traumatic social climate. “Thank you for recognizing that,” she says.
“I think that as women, and as black women in general, we’re always having to fight two times harder.” Solange straightens in her seat. “And you know, even with my videos, I was so invested in the visual storytelling, of wanting to see black men and women in the way that I see them every day, which is powerful but graceful but also vulnerable and also regal and stately. And how we use style as a language, and our pageantry, and how we communicate.”
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