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For Solange fans, myself included, there is something of the sublime in her music. Chords loop, horns slide, vocals riff and run, and a connection emerges from the honesty in her work and the activism of her everyday life. Solange, in short, is unashamedly herself. Stephanie Phillips, a singer and guitarist who has played with various punk bands, seeks to ground Solangeâs journey in her own adventures. She describes her voyage as a Black woman trying to find moments of peace and freedom in a society that doesnât offer such liberty so easily.
The singer and author share a story as Black women moving through spaces that werenât built with them in mind
Solange taught me that Black female rage can be used in the fight for freedom
With the unconventional roads she sought to travel, Solange Knowles has always been an inspiration for Stephanie Phillips. In an extract from her new book, Why Solange Matters, she explains how the musician reminds Black women that when anger is kept inside, it can fester
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Solange performing at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2014 (Flickr/Neon Tommy)
The first time Stephanie Phillips, a London-based music journalist and the frontwoman of the punk trio Big Joanie, saw music polyhistor Solange Knowles, it was nearly baptismal.
It was July 2017, and Phillips and her friends were at the Lovebox Festival in London. Up there in the air, looking down from above on the sea of festival-goers, I could suddenly see my place in this fandom, Phillips writes in
Why Solange Matters. Throughout the crowd, there were replicas of my own friendship group. Pockets of Black girls grouped together screaming and living in the moment.