Nona Hendryx

).Revolutionary art-rock, new-wave goddess Nona Hendryx is a vocalist, songwriter, musician and author. Tackling social issues, love and politics, Hendryx’s career spans decades of sound and style evolution. Longtime Nona Hendryx fans know her as one of the groundbreaking group Labelle and their No.1 worldwide hit “Lady Marmalade (Voulez Vous Coucher Avec Moi C'est Soir?" Hendryx the songwriter came into her own as a solo artist post Labelle. On Rock infused albums and her album Mutatis Mutandis (changing those things which need to be changed), Hendryx lends the necessary gravitas to a striking rendition of Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” with a smoky vocal tessitura somewhere between funk and the end of the stratosphere. Nona is an Ambassador for Artistry in Music for Berklee College in Boston. She curated and performed in a production she created for The Metropolitan Museum ‘Nona Hendryx and Disciples of Sun Ra in the Temple of Dendur and is composing music for the revival of ‘Blue’ a play directed by Phylicia Rashaad at the Apollo Theater. https://www.nonahendryx.com