Billboard talked to the risg artist about the eras that fluenced the sound of this album, why his most recent visuals are among his favore, and what ’s like to create a blueprt for black gay pop stars.
Contents:
- MNEK: I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW 'S OK TO BE BLACK AND GAY
- MNEK PENS EMOTNAL NOTE ABOUT BEG GAY AND BLACK FOR NATNAL COMG OUT DAY
- IS MNEK GAY? AGE, HEIGHT, NET WORTH
- POP PRODIGY MNEK ON BEG A BLACK GAY ROLE MOL: 'THERE'S NOTHG WRONG WH BEG MYSELF'
- MNEK TALKS DEBUT SOLO ALBUM ‘LANGUAGE’ AND CREATG A BLUEPRT FOR BLACK GAY POP STARS
MNEK: I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW 'S OK TO BE BLACK AND GAY
MNEK has spoken out about g out as gay an emotnal Instagram post. The Never Fet You sger marked Natnal Comg Out Day by discsg his own experience of... * is mnek gay *
MNEK has said reachg out to people who are figurg out their sexualy is more important to him than the billn mic streams he has clocked sger-songwrer, who has jt released his but album Language, told BBC Rad 5 Live’s Nihal Arthanayake on the Headlers podst that growg up: “I didn’t always see someone that I uld relate to, that would tell me that beg black and gay is OK. MNEK has wrten to fans on Natnal Comg Out Day (Picture: John Phillips/Getty Imag)MNEK has spoken out about g out as gay an emotnal Instagram post.
MNEK PENS EMOTNAL NOTE ABOUT BEG GAY AND BLACK FOR NATNAL COMG OUT DAY
The Never Fet You sger marked Natnal Comg Out Day by discsg his own experience of realisg he was gay and tellg his parents and iends. I me out as gay when I was 18. A year before, I went to my first gay club (Room Service, obvi) wh @amedigal, and cid amongst all the naked men and ee alhol that was the perfect time to let the good sis know “I’m bi, i like boys and girls” she go “ol, i knew but i love you all the same bb”.
IS MNEK GAY? AGE, HEIGHT, NET WORTH
‘I also thk beg black and realisg you’re gay n be v dntg.
‘There’s also thgs like homophobia WITHIN the black muny (see: chichi man, batty boy beg regularly ed school)/relign (that vio of the prit chattg bout lickg the poo poo like sis relax)/ but… NT-way. ‘And beg gay beyond the realisatn of your attractn to the same sex – ’s also really a tt of unndnal love.
There’s people who aren’t my life anymore, and I’m pretty sure the ndn was my homosexualy but oh welp i’ve ma better iends who love me 4 who i am and you will too! " He scrib turng a rner after a gay liftyle magaze honored him as a breakthrough artist.
POP PRODIGY MNEK ON BEG A BLACK GAY ROLE MOL: 'THERE'S NOTHG WRONG WH BEG MYSELF'
”Speakg late on Friday aboard a chartered flight to New York om London to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rts, MNEK said by beg black and gay he was a “mory wh a mory. ”He flew to New York on a Virg Atlantic flight chartered om London honor of the events of June 1969 at the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village gay bar where patrons stood up to police harassment and triggered days of ristance gave rise to the natnal and global LGBT+ movement for equal rights. "Image source, Gabriel Mokake"We never really get to do thgs like this, " says Ryan Ashley who is a gay artist and part of MNEK's two day mp.
MNEK TALKS DEBUT SOLO ALBUM ‘LANGUAGE’ AND CREATG A BLUEPRT FOR BLACK GAY POP STARS
Uso is an openly gay artist. Want to know if Mnek is Gay or not?