Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 335fifth episode of Awards Chatter,

Hollywood Reporters Awards Podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg,

and my guest today is a remarkably talented singer, songwriter,

actress, producer, fashion icon, and social activists who is changing the game

and seemingly can't miss with anything she does.

Described by the Guardian as quote James Brown

reborn in a more advanced female future close quote and by former

first lady Michelle Obama as quote an incandescent talent, close quote.

She's an eight-time Grammy nominee

whose three massively acclaimed albums,

2010's Arc Androids 2 and 3,

2013's The Electric Lady, and 2018's Dirty Computer,

Blended Pop, Funk, Soul, and R&B,

whose first two films, Moonlight and Hidden Figures,

both released in 2016, won the Best Picture Oscar and

the Best Ensemble SAG Award, respectively, and who is now garnering Raves for her work as the

lead on the second season of the Amazon Prime drama Homecoming

on which she plays a military veteran who wakes up one day in a canoe in the middle of a

lake with no memory of her past and has to piece her life back together.

I'm talking of course about the great Janelle Monet.

Over the course of our conversation the 34 yearold and I discuss how both singing and acting

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