Janelle Monáe comes to the Uptown Theater this Friday

Janelle Monáe is weird. You might not notice because she’s so pretty and has such a big, soulful voice, but this Kansas City – born diva has an elaborate plan to reinvent R&B.

On Monáe’s latest album, The Electric Lady, she fuses funk beats and bombastic vocals with a vaguely dystopian story line that she has been building since her 2007 debut, Metropolis. Monáe’s talent has been endorsed by OutKast and Prince – His Purpleness has essentially crowned her R&B’s newest princess – and her strange star seems to keep on rising.  

Ticket info here.