Beyoncé’s younger sister Solange Piaget Knowles is an American singer, songwriter, model, actress and is the latest cover star for the Autumn/Winter 2017 issue of AnOther Magazine. She honed in on both songwriting and dance as a means of self-expression and has created her own niche in the music industry. She talks about her music journey, the lapses between her album releases, her family and much more.
That artistic journey reaches its apex by way of A Seat at the Table, which in 21 tracks sonically captures the temperature of the times – searing hot with racial tension and cold with a lack of empathy.
On how her latest album birthed: “The everyday stories and incidents I had been hearing all around me – all of those things were really embodied in those early sessions recording the album. I knew it was the album I had to write. Whether I felt fear, whether I felt unprepared to have the conversation, whether I had major doubts, it was not up to me. I was not writing anything else,” Knowles explains.
On why she made this record “a seat at the table”: “I made this record to find some sort of reconciliation with myself and how I acted… It’s been really interesting trying to figure out how to have that conversation with the people who love this record because I had to do this album to try to make myself a better human. It’s been so wonderful and humbling when you start at the root of that and then see how it can grow” – Solange Knowles 
On the time lapses of her albums: “I was talking to some of my friends about the distance between each of my albums, which averages at four to five years. They were asking whether I was conscious of that. But I really don’t seek out to make a project unless I feel like I have something to say, something to dismantle, something to explore.”
I love writing pop music, I just wanted it to celebrate some of life’s intricacies and I felt like they could be internalized within pop music.”
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Photography by Peter Lindbergh,
Styling by Robbie Spencer
Hair: Jawara at Bryant Artists using BUMBLE AND BUMBLE.
Makeup Karim Rahman at Streeters.
Photographic assistants Stefan Rappo, Thomas Lachambre, Hugo Mapelli, Joris Rossi.
Styling assistants Katie McGoldrick, Andreea Georgiana Rădoi, Diego Diez.
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