Janelle Monae celebrates being 'a black queer artist' as she kicks off the 2020 Oscars - NBCOUT
Feb. 10, 2020, 1:29 PM UTCLOS ANGELES - Janelle Monae kicked off the Academy Awards with a song-and-dance production number based on her 2010 song"Come Alive," lyrically rewritten to reference the Oscars and some of the year's top films -- with spoken asides about the lack of female directors represented among the nominees, and what she personally represented as the show opener.
"We celebrate all the women who directed phenomenal films," she said, midsong,"and I'm so proud to stand here as a black queer artist, telling stories. Happy Black History Month." Besides a slew of dancers dressed in costumes evoking films both nominated and not , Monae was also joined by Billy Porter, who sang Elton John's"I'm Still Standing," the climactic number from"Rocketman," while Monae took to the piano.
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