Solange cranes in the sky live5/21/2023 ![]() But the event also crystallized something her fans already knew: More than just a musician, Solange-like Kanye West or her sister, Beyoncé-represents an expansion of the roles black artists can play and the spaces they can inhabit, a tearing down of boundaries that might have, until fairly recently, kept performers like her out.īorn in 1986 and raised in Houston, Solange started her career in her mid-teens, performing occasionally with her sister’s group, Destiny’s Child (which her father, Mathew Knowles, managed), before making her solo debut with 2002’s Solo Star. Mixing theater and movement with live reinterpretations of songs from her Grammy-winning album A Seat at the Table, the event featured 30-odd performers, including a horn section and dancers, tracing the building’s iconic spiraled balconies. ![]() ![]() In 2017, Solange staged an intimate and somewhat unprecedented performance at New York City’s Guggenheim Museum.
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