D∆WN: An Interview With The R&B Phoenix

Dawn Richard doesn’t move forward, she evolves. Since our introduction to the singer over a decade ago as a contestant and eventual champion on MTV’s Making the Band, Richard has run through the cycle of artistic birth and death innumerable times–first as a member of the Diddy-assembled girl group Danity Kane, then as a member of Puff’s side project Dirty Money, and now as a visionary solo performer. It’s no surprise, then, that her current, futurist spin on R&B