“When I was growing up, there was no one. There were very few black women in tech; there were very few black women in the fashion game. We didn't have our Grace Jones - Grace Jones was before my time. We didn't really have a lot of black women in electronic and punk who were celebrated in the same levels as, say, your big mega-superstars.”

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.