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What is Janelle Monáe's Net Worth?
Janelle Monáe is an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, producer, and actress who has a net worth of $12 million dollars. Monáe released her first independent album, "The Audition," in 2003 and signed with Bad Boy Records three years later. In 2007, Janelle released the EP "Metropolis Suite I: The Chase," which earned her a Grammy nomination. Monáe then released the studio albums "The ArchAndroid" (2010), "The Electric Lady" (2013), and "Dirty Computer" (2018). As an actress, Janelle has appeared in the films "Moonlight" (2016), "Hidden Figures" (2016), "Welcome to Marwen" (2018), "Harriet" (2019), "The Glorias" (2020), and "Antebellum" (2020) and lent her voice to "Rio 2" (2014), "UglyDolls" (2019), and "Lady and the Tramp" (2019). In 2020, she joined the cast of the Prime Video series "Homecoming."
Early Life
Janelle Monáe was born Janelle Monáe Robinson on December 1, 1985, in Kansas City, Kansas. Her mother, Janet (a hotel maid and a janitor), and her father, Michael (a truck driver), split up when Janelle was a toddler, and Janet later got remarried to a postal worker and military veteran. Monáe has a younger half-sister, Kimmy, and was raised in a Baptist household. Janelle's father battled crack cocaine and spent some time in prison, and Monáe has said that it left her with anxiety and abandonment issues. Janelle became interested in singing and performing at an early age and began singing at a local church. She performed songs from the album "The Miseducation ofLauryn Hill" at Juneteenth talent shows and won three consecutive years, and during her teenage years, she joined the Young Playwrights' Round Table at the Coterie Theater and started writing musicals.
After graduating from F. L. Schlagle High School, Monáe studied musical theater at New York City's American Musical and Dramatic Academy but dropped out after a year and a half to move to Atlanta, where she attended Perimeter College at Georgia State University. She started writing music and performing on campus, then self-released the album "The Audition" in 2003. She met producers/songwriters Nate Wonder and Chuck Lightning and later formed the Wondaland Arts Collective with them. After Janelle was fired from Office Depot for answering fan mail on a company computer, she wrote the song "Lettin' Go," which caught the attention of OutKast'sBig Boi.
Career
Monáe performed on the tracks "Call the Law" and "In Your Dreams" on OutKast's 2006 "Idlewild" soundtrack and appeared on "Got Purp? Vol. 2," a 2005 album by the Purple Ribbon All-Stars. After Big Boi told Sean Combs about Janelle, Combs signed her to his Bad Boy record label in 2006. Monáe released the EP "Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase)" on August 24, 2007, and it reached #2 on the "Billboard" Heatseekers Albums chart. The track "Many Moons" earned a Grammy nomination for Best Urban/Alternative Performance, and Janelle opened for No Doubt during their 2009 tour. In May 2010, Janelle released the album "The ArchAndroid," and it reached #17 on the "Billboard" 200 chart and #4 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. In 2011, she performed on fun.'s single "We Are Young," which was certified Diamond in the U.S. and earned Grammy nominations for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.
In 2012, Monáe became a spokesperson for CoverGirl, appeared in Sonos commercials, and performed at CarolinaFest in Charlotte to support President Obama ahead of the Democratic National Convention. Janelle released the album "The Electric Lady" in September 2013, and it peaked at #5 on the "Billboard" 200; the music video for the single "Q.U.E.E.N." (featuringErykah Badu) was viewed four million times on YouTube within its first week. October 16th, 2013, was named "Janelle Monáe Day" by the Boston City Council, and Monáe performed on "Saturday Night Live" later that month. In 2014, she took part in a "Women of Soul" event at the White House, received the Harvard College Women's Center Award for Achievement in Arts and Media, and was named the 2014 Woman of the Year at the Celebration of Black Women gala put on by the Harvard College Black Men's Forum. In 2015, Janelle's independent Wondaland Arts Society label became Wondaland Records in a partnership with Epic Records.
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