Solange Wants to Release Tuba Music but Thinks Fans May Not Be Interested: 'I Can Only Imagine the Eye Rolls'

The “Don’t Touch My Hair” artist released her last album ‘When I Get Home’ in 2019, and now she “started writing music for the tuba”

Many artists are switching genres at the moment — André 3000 released a brass album, Lil Jon dropped a guided meditation project, and Beyoncé is in her country era. Will Solange Knowles follow suit?

In a new interview for the cover with Harper’s Bazaarthe Grammy winner revealed that she learned to play the tuba and is writing music for the instrument — but she’s not sure how fans will take it.

Solange, 37, told Tuba that the tuba is her current obsession. “I love it. I started writing tuba music and I’m trying to talk myself into releasing it, but I can only imagine the eye rolls from people saying, ‘This bitch didn’t make an album,'” explained the musician, whose last album When I get home was published in 2019.

Solange Knowles for Harper’s Bazaar.

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The performer of “Don’t touch my hair” also explained why she became interested in the instrument. “Sounds like what I feel,” she said. “There’s a way it takes up space that you can’t deny, and it also feels very black to me.”

In the interim since Solange’s latest full-length release, she has toured the world, made a special appearance at the 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale de Venezia, and written the score for the New York City Ballet’s 2022 production, among other projects.

Solange Knowles for Harper’s Bazaar.

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Last month she performed a four-act multimedia performance exhibition called “In Service to Whom” at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

In its four acts, “In Service to Whom” explored the “everyday earthly gestures” that played a role in expanding Solange’s creativity, according to her Saint Heron website.

Encompassing “sound meditations with performance-specific scenography and digital-visual archival projections,” the 84-minute show featured Solange’s performance of original orchestral works inspired by “repetition, gospel vocal arrangements, minimalism and the music of a black Southern marching band at football games” she attended in her hometown. the city of Houston.

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Elsewhere in Harper’s Bazaar interview, Solange talked about how she remained almost anonymous for some elements of the performance exhibition.

“There were moments when I just stood there in silence,” she told the newspaper. “When people entered the space, they didn’t notice that I was there. [When they did] they had to adjust to the discomfort of me just existing, not entertaining, delivering or killing.”

Solange also talked about how her approach to performing has changed throughout her career. “In the performance, I appear as myself. 15 years ago, the idea was to appear in costumes,” she said.

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