Get to know Dawn Richard
The singer forging an ambitious solo career after turning her back on Puff Daddy
Dawn Richard is not your average former reality show contestant. Having earned her place in mid-noughties US girl group Danity Kane via Puff Daddy’s Making The Band, she’s now making the kind of avant-garde r’n’b you’d expect from FKA Twigs or Grimes. She worked briefly again with Diddy on his Diddy Dirty Money project before realising her vision could not be compromised any further.
“I do everything myself now,” she tells us. “It’s difficult but fun. I don’t have people telling me my cinematic ideas are too much; I create my own world.” Her new album ‘Redemptionheart’ is the third in a trilogy that began with ‘Goldenheart’ in 2013, followed by the broken-hearted ‘Blackheart’ two years later.
