Meshell Ndegeocello is a singer, songwriter, and musician whose prolific artistry is perhaps just as notorious as her desire for keeping her personal life to her self. Though the 45-year-old has never kept her sexual relationships with both genders a secret, it’s not something she speaks on often, preferring to let her music categorize her and decisions on her likability from one person to the next to be based on that, rather than her sexual orientation. In fact, in a recent interview with TheBoomBox.com, she said:
“It’s sad that people’s personal lives take such precedent. I just think it’s funny that these issues even come up.”
Meshell didn’t stop there, though, in her interview for TheBoomBox’s Off The Record series. She went on to say this about her own sexual identity:
“I’ve come up with a new term: I am sexually functional with both genders. I just choose to be with this particular one. Who knows what the future holds? It’s just such a weird concept to me that it’s so important to how you judge my music or my character or anything about me. I’m never assuming what heterosexual people are doing.”
Within that context, it’s easy to see why Meshell went on to say that making music is the only time she feels gender-less and race-less and that “it’s just a nice feeling.”
Head over to TheBoomBox.com to check the rest of Meshell’s interview, as she talks about Prince inspiring her to make real records and performs covers of Nick Drake’s “Pink Moon” and Nina Simone’s “Be My Husband.”
What do you think about the comments from Meshelle Ndegeocell on orientation?
