Nona Hendryx

In the spirit of two-fisted political singer songwriters such as Nina Simone, and Joni Mitchell, Nona Hendryx tackles social issues, love and politics with a smoky vocal tessitura somewhere between funk and the end of the stratosphere. Hendryx’s legendary career spans decades of sound and style evolution. Fans know her as a founding member of the group who morphed from Patti Labelle and The Bluebells, into the Rock & Funk Glam Diva's 'Labelle' with the #1 record, Lady Marmalade.  Nona Hendryx emerged as the chief songwriter of the group’s socially conscious and illuminating message songs. With the end of Labelle, Nona Hendryx fans welcomed the revolutionary art-rock, new-wave goddess Nona as she embarked upon her own impressive Solo career, which spanned eight studio albums and engaged her with an impressive lineup of collaborators (Prince, George Clinton and P-Funk, Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, Laurie Anderson, Bono and Cameo), resulting in top ten hits and a Grammy nomination (Rock This Houses with The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards on guitar) and a GRAMMY winner for Terri Lyne Carrington’s ‘Mosaic Project’. Nona is passionate about Afrofuturism and Speculative Fiction and feels, “Afrofuturism, looking back to move forward is not only fiction, it is not only science, it is a future created in the mind, projected and seen through the lens of the African diaspora, it is part Science Fiction and Fact”.  Nona Hendryx is the guest Artistic Director for the Harlem Stage year long series The Cosmic Synthesis of Sun Ra Afrofuturism Series.