![]() ![]() They were about social justice,” Kelela says. ![]() “My parents met through a radical student movement that was interested in reform. ![]() Her parents had immigrated to the United States independently in the 1970s to attend college on full scholarships, under an affirmative action initiative that funded the education of African students. Kelela Mizanekristos was born in 1983 in Washington, D.C., a June Gemini and a second-generation Ethiopian-American. And now, having risen up through the indie music scene, Kelela is ready to be a pop star. Take Me Apart deepens her relationship with the electronic music world, but it’s fully grounded in R&B’s brave emotional honesty. Kelela is never one to rush - she worked for four years on her first mixtape, 2013’s Cut 4 Me, then followed it up with just six more tracks on 2015’s Hallucinogen - and her album is the work of someone who, after a period of struggle, has become in-tune with all parts of herself. The occasion for our chat is her ingenious debut album, Take Me Apart, soon to be released on Warp. ![]()
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