“I wanted to make an album that sounded like a release of inhibitions, really getting away from the idea that you have to be anything other than in that moment.”

American singer

Dawn Angeliqué Richard is an American singer from New Orleans, Louisiana. She first came to wider attention in 2004, when she auditioned for MTV's Making the Band 3 and helped form the girl group Danity Kane. Her public profile grew through that reality television competition and the group that emerged from it. She is known as a performer whose career began in the music industry, with those early years tied to pop group work and televised talent competition.