Kelela has a music recommendation for you, if you’re looking for one. In a conversation just shy of an hour, the R&B and electronic music visionary pulls out all sorts of references. And while ...

As Kelela comfortably settles into the show, she shares that her first time at the Blue Note was to see Amel Larrieux, the vocalist from Groove Theory. She “taught me how to sing,” Kelela says.

But last June, the New Yorker bucked convention and paired a floor-grazing black skirt with a white T-shirt from the Row for a friend’s Philadelphia nuptials. “Certain occasions used to pull m ...