'We Find A Way To Dance': Inspired By New Orleans, DAWN Reconstructs Beauty From Ruin
Dawn Richard gained fame as a member of R&B group Danity Kane just as her hometown was recovering from Hurricane Katrina. Now a solo artist, she explores her New Orleans roots on a new album.
DAWN is a survivor. You can hear it when she tells her story and you can hear it when she sings her songs.
The singer-songwriter-producer, f.k.a. D∆WN or Dawn Richard, first rose to notoriety as a member of Diddy's R&B group Danity Kane. The group dropped its debut album in August of 2006, one year after Hurricane Katrina hit DAWN's hometown of New Orleans. She still remembers being stranded on a highway with her family when Katrina hit.
"We left Sunday, [it] happened on Monday," DAWN explains. "My dad had a wedding to sing for.
