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Solange Knowles is opening up about her relationship with father, Mathew Knowles. The 31-year-old singer’s parents were both featured on her latest album, A Seat at the Table.
Solange admits that while working with Mathew on the project, she learned more about him, which helped their relationship. She explains,
I knew I wanted to interview my parents when the album was done because I knew that if I interviewed them earlier in the process, it would shape and mold the way I personally related to my experience in New Iberia.
She refers to getting her divorced parents together as “powerful.”
Obviously, my parents are divorced, and getting the two of them in a room together was a powerful moment in time. They really led the conversation. I felt that because of my yearning to know, they were honest with me.
Solange continues,
I understood my father so much more. To sort out my adolescent and young adult years, there was still so much I needed to know because our relationship was not always very good. It’s still very much a work in progress. But I think I have a much clearer idea of the trauma that he experienced and how it felt like it was then generationally passed on to me. Both kind of existing in the white spaces as an “only,” and how much that can really shape and mold your experience of the world, race and identity. My mother, on the other hand, I knew how she felt. Heard it my whole life!
