Solange
Kelly Rowland broke her toes backstage in 2000, and the teenager who filled in for her on those Destiny's Child dates was Solange, Beyoncé's younger sister. Songwriting, she says, is her primary passion; she later penned 'Get Me Bodied' and 'Upgrade U' for her sibling's B'Day.
Begun at 14, Solo Star was uptempo R&B shaped partly by Timbaland and the Neptunes. Then came a swerve: Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams (2008) drew on Motown girl groups and sounds from the 1960s and '70s, and the True EP looked to '80s pop.
Her own imprint, Saint Records, carried A Seat at the Table (2016). While "figuring out chords and building songs" for it in 2015, she first performed 'Rise', inspired by the police killings of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray and the protests that followed in Ferguson and Baltimore. When I Get Home arrived in 2019.
If you like Solange you should check out: Beyoncé, Erykah Badu, D'Angelo, Sade, Anderson .Paak, Childish Gambino, Kendrick Lamar, The xx, Jamie xx, The Weeknd
