Janelle Monáe Robinson was born and grew up in Kansas City in which she idolized The Wizard of Oz’s Dorothy as like her, she dreamed of a place over the rainbow somewhere. She later moved to New York so that she could study theater at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy as she planned to try to have a career on Broadway but she later changed her mind and went back to music as she said in her Atlantic Records biography: “There was a lot of confusion and nonsense where I grew up, so I reacted by creating my own little world...I began to see how music could change lives, and I began to dream about a world where every day was like anime and Broadway, where music fell from the sky and anything could happen.” After she changed her name
