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🗓️ 17 February 2023

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If you haven't stepped into an underground club in the last decade, you might be forgiven if you don't know Kelela. But the Washington, D.C. native has had a seismic impact on dance music since she broke into the scene in 2013. Now, after a six-year hiatus, Kelela is out with her fourth and latest record, 'Raven' – and with it, she's remaking the future of dance music. This week, host Brittany Luse sits down with Kelela to discuss Black queer liberation, and how she hopes this record helps folks find freedom on the dance floor.

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, you're listening to It's Been A Minute From NPR.
0:06.5	I'm Brittany Loose.
0:07.8	A couple weeks ago, music history was made when Beyoncé took home the Grammy for Best
0:12.2	Dance and Electronic Album.
0:13.6	Thank you so much.
0:15.6	I'm trying not to be too emotional.
0:18.8	She became the first black woman ever to receive the award, which is funny because Beyoncé's
0:24.8	Renaissance was an homage to the massive black-fear contributions to dance music.
0:30.9	I'd like to thank the queer community for your love and for inventing this genre.
0:36.6	Thank you.
0:37.6	It Beyoncé was drawing from the past.
0:39.8	My guest today, Kalella, is charting dance music's Black Queer Future.
0:45.1	Black people know that that's their music, that that's us.
0:48.6	Kalella released her last album, Take Me Apart, in 2017.
0:52.6	But over the past six years, she never disappeared from the dance floor.
0:57.7	That's because her sound had a seismic influence on electronic music.
1:02.6	And for years, her music has been a staple of underground dance parties around the world.
1:08.6	Now Kalella is back with a new album called Raven, which once again remakes dance music
1:14.7	in her image.
1:15.9	I've always felt that your music, you know, people always use that phrase like ahead of
1:34.9	the curve, ahead of its time, rather.
1:37.5	And I always think that phrase puts whatever they're discussing out of step with time.
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