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Janelle Monáe and her Wonderland Arts company partner with Sony Music Publishing

By | Published on Wednesday 23 June 2021

Nate Wonder, Janelle Monáe, Chuck Lightning

Sony Music Publishing has signed Janelle Monáe and her Wondaland Arts Society company to a worldwide administration agreement.

“As an artist who is constantly reinventing myself, I feel like I’m just getting started”, says Monáe. “I am excited about partnering with Big Jon and the rest of my new Sony family to help shape the future of music in the record industry as well as the fashion, and TV and film space”.

Big Jon – aka Sony Music Publishing CEO Jon Platt – adds: “I have been chasing the opportunity to work with Janelle since the beginning of her career. I am very grateful to welcome her to Sony Music Publishing, and I look forward to building something incredible with Janelle and the Wondaland Arts family”.

Monáe is currently working on new music alongside her Wondaland Arts Society co-founders Chuck Lightning and Nate Wonder.

“As an artist and writer, I’m incredibly excited to impact culture, hearts and minds in bold new ways with the broad expertise and resources of our new Sony family”, says Lightning. “And I continue to believe that great music is needed more than ever right now, as a universal language that spreads wonder, change and understanding throughout the world”.

Wonder adds: “As an artist and music producer in the record industry, TV, and film space I am quite excited about this next chapter with Sony. I hope to help shape hearts and minds with the wonderful gift that is music”.

Since her last album, 2018’s ‘Dirty Computer’, Monáe has become increasingly known for her work as an actor, with several roles in acclaimed films, such as ‘Moonlight’, ‘Hidden Figures’ and ‘Antebellum’ under her belt, plus TV series ‘Homecoming’.

She is also about to begin filming her role in ‘Knives Out 2’ and has various film projects of her own in the works, including ‘The ArchAndroid’, which is based on her 2010 debut album of the same name.



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