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Ten-time Grammy nominated singer, songwriter, producer, writer and character Janelle Monáe is heading to UTA for practice successful each areas including touring, media, filmed entertainment, marque partnerships and more.
The signing comes arsenic Monáe is slated to look successful respective projects, including a characteristic nan Amazon MGM Studios feature, Is God Is, successful theaters connected May 15, and nan caller big animated bid Bass X Machina for Netflix, premiering connected Oct. 6.
“Janelle is simply a generational talent and nan existent meaning of a multi-hyphenate creative,” said UTA Partner and Co-Head of Talent Jay Gassner. “We are thrilled to partner pinch an creator of Janelle’s singular imagination and profound taste impact, and look guardant to moving pinch them and Wondaland to unlock and amplify opportunities crossed music, film, television, brands, fashion, publishing, theatre, organization building and beyond.”
Monáe’s astir caller medium The Age of Pleasure (2023) received 2024 Grammy nominations for Album of nan Year and Best Progressive R&B Album. Their debut album, The ArchAndroid (2010), introduced their retro‑futuristic change ego and established them arsenic a awesome caller sound successful modern music. They followed pinch The Electric Lady (2013) and Dirty Computer (2018), producing gold‑certified singles for illustration “Tightrope,” “Yoga,” “Make Me Feel” and “I Like That” pinch Dirty Computer receiving 2019 Grammy Nominations for Album of nan Year and Best Music Video.
Monáe starred successful Netflix’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Lionsgate’s Antebellum, nan Amazon bid Homecoming, arsenic good arsenic nan Academy Award-winning movie Moonlight and nan Academy Award-nominated container agency deed movie Hidden Figures. As an author, Monáe released nan New York Times champion trading short communicative postulation The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer successful 2022, which expanded nan communicative beingness of Dirty Computer.
Monáe founded Wondaland Arts Society and Wondaland Pictures, which develops film, television, and multimedia projects nether a first‑look woody pinch Universal Pictures. Additionally done Wondaland Arts Society, Monáe produces Wondaween, a month-long, city-wide Halloween show to Los Angeles, which spans cemeteries, theaters, concealed locations, nan Hollywood Bowl and Santa Monica Pier.
Monáe continues to beryllium represented by Mikael Moore, Nate Wonder, Chuck Lightning and Kelli Andrews for Wondaland, Ben Rubinfeld astatine Ziffren Brittenham, Matthew Johnson astatine Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole, Jonathan Leonard and ID. Monáe was antecedently repped by WME.
