As one of the most talked-about figures, Janelle Monae has built a significant fortune. In this article, we dive deep into the assets and career highlights.
What is Janelle Monáe's Net Worth?
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Janelle has said that she identifies with bisexuality as well as pansexuality and that she has dated both men and women. In January 2020, she tweeted the #IAmNonbinary hashtag and retweeted a "Steven Universe" meme saying "Are you a boy or a girl? I'm an experience." She later stated, "It resonated with me, especially as someone who has pushed boundaries of gender since the beginning of my career. I feel my feminine energy, my masculine energy, and energy I can't even explain." Monáe is an activist and founded the organization Fem the Future in 2016. In 2015, Janelle and her fellow Wondaland members teamed up for the protest song "Hell You Talmbout" to encourage people to say the names of African-Americans who have died as a result of police brutality or racial violence. Monáe performed at the Women's March in 2017 and spoke about the "Time's Up" movement at the 2018 Grammys.
In 2016, Monáe appeared on "This Is for My Girls," a track put together by First LadyMichelle Obamathat also featuredKelly Clarkson,Missy Elliott, andZendaya. Later that year, she played Teresa in the film "Moonlight" and portrayed NASA mathematician/engineer Mary Jackson in "Hidden Figures." Both films were nominated for Best Picture at the 2017 Academy Awards, with "Moonlight" taking home the prize, and Janelle performed the tracks "Jalapeño" and "Isn't This the World" on the "Hidden Figures" soundtrack. Monáe appeared on an episode of the anthology series "Philip K. Dick'sElectric Dreams" in 2017 and released the album "Dirty Computer" in April 2018. The album reached #6 on the "Billboard" 200 and earned a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year. Also in 2018, Janelle's production company, Wondaland Pictures, signed a deal with Universal, and she appeared in the film "Welcome to Marwen." She played Marie Buchanon in the 2019 film "Harriet," and in 2020, she appeared in the horror film "Antebellum" and the biopic "The Glorias" and began starring as Jacqueline Calico / Alex Eastern on "Homecoming."
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.
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.
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."
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.
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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Disclaimer: All net worth figures are estimates based on public data.
