# Help me remember the name of this singer

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-name-of-this-singer/549343>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 5, 2010, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-name-of-this-singer/549343 "2010-08-05T22:25:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-name-of-this-singer/549343/1 "2010-08-05T22:25:58Z")

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She’s a petite black woman with an [Egon Spengler](http://www.ectocontainment.com/staff/egonbio.jpg) haircut and I think they used performance footage of her in a _Stargate Universe_ episode.

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**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2010, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-name-of-this-singer/549343/2 "2010-08-06T00:07:40Z")

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Janelle Monáe.

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2010, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-name-of-this-singer/549343/3 "2010-08-06T00:14:50Z")

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> [@ErinPuff](#):
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> Janelle Monáe.

Thanks! That’s her. I knew she had a last name that sounded like a famous painter, too.

She has a really unique sound.