American - Musician | August 5, 1983 -
I think, my entire life, I was a bit different. And I didn't think I was different; I just kinda always stuck out.
Dawn Richard
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When my dad went to college to get his master's from Loyola, he was playing Debussy and Chopin and Beethoven. But he played all that New Orleans stuff, too. I would go with my dad to gigs, pick up the piano and the speakers, and I would be like his roadie.
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Besides music, I was all school, school, school. And softball. I played the game since I was four, and I wanted to go to the Olympics for softball. I got a full scholarship through softball.
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Originally, I was set on going to Hawaii Pacific University. We visited the campus in Hawaii. I was gonna be a Rainbow Warrior. I was gonna play softball. I was gonna major in marine biology. Everything was set. Then my dad was like, 'So you're not gonna do music? If you do go to Hawaii, there's no studios there, baby girl.'
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Music and dance is part of everything in New Orleans. So I grew up appreciating it all.
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I write for myself. It's therapy.
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I couldn't do a record without knowing I'll translate it into something visual.
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I want to get up and celebrate something - and why not celebrate being a woman?
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'Blackheart' is purely falling into the electronic world and pushing the envelope.
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Fashion is my lover on the side, but I am married to music.
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My father's music is all I remember from my childhood.
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I would describe my personal style as putting Twiggy and Yoko Ono together. It is hobo with no rules.
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