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" Growing up, my parents were Roman Catholic - strict Catholics - from New Orleans. I understood the idea in the principle of spirituality. I noticed it in the stories that I read. The Trinity was something that was brought up consistently: the power of three. Things happened in threes, and I thought that was brilliant. "

Dawn Richard

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Thought

Growing Up

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" My father's music is all I remember from my childhood. "

" 'Armor On' explains why I needed armor in the first place. Sonically, you'll hear this battle of, 'I love you, no I don't. I love you, I hate you.' That's what you'll feel. You see the story kind of fight against itself. "

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" People want to peg you as alternative R&B when they hear soul or see the color of your skin. It's comfortable when people see artists of color or artists that come from a different country to put that brand on us. It's just not as linear as that. "

" I love what a women embodies. I love our bodies; I love the way we communicate with our bodies. I love the way dance creates movement. It's art in motion. "

" There's definitely that tribal Africana thing going on in my sound. It's that marching band, second-line music, that Creole-influence in the kick, and the snare that drives everything for me. I think it's really what's separated my sound from a lot of the R&B and pop music out there. "

Dawn Richard

Music

Think

" I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came from that. "

" I want to get up and celebrate something - and why not celebrate being a woman? "

Dawn Richard

Woman

Celebrate

" There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies. But I never saw it that way. I always thought music was open to all things. "

" I did write more mainstream stuff with DK. But you could always tell the records that I wrote in contrast with everybody else's because the format was a bit different. The harmonies were used in a different type of way. Way more metaphors in the mix. "

Dawn Richard

Contrast

You

" The problem with Danity Kane is everybody wanted to play everybody's role, and when you're in a group like that, that can't survive. "

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" 'Redemption' sounds like a jubilee. Like a second line, if you will. "

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Line

Redemption

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Dawn Richard

Right

Always

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" My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and the smell of them and how they'd have these series, and it was cool to me. I always felt like, if I had an opportunity, I'd create an album that felt like a series. "

Dawn Richard

Library

Cool

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