Dawn Richard had to leave her hometown when Hurricane Katrina hit just as her career was getting started. Now, more than a decade later, the R&B futurist has returned — and she’s making her most daring music yet
The trauma left behind by Hurricane Katrina, she explains, informed her family’s evacuation plans this year. Rattled by memories of 2005, Richard opted to get as far as possible from the storm, hoping she could convince her mother and father to join her in L.A. Instead, her parents drove to Dallas to wait out the storm, wanting a self-sufficient route back to their suburban New Orleans home.
, filmed in New York City. Before the final five young women were chosen for Diddy’s girl group, Richard went home to New Orleanss devastation. She spent three weeks living in a car with her parents, before eventually being summoned back to New York to take her spot in Danity Kane, named for a comic-book character Richard created. and jobless after Danity Kane ended four years later, Richard joined her family in Baltimore, where they had relocated after Katrina.
For Richard, living in New Orleans has come with a recommitment to her art and her joy. “I’m not trying to have a national career,” she says. “I want to be happy. . . . I was in New York and L.A. and I still wasn’t big nationally. I was in two big multimillion-dollar groups; it didn’t help me none. It didn’t.
New Iberia also bore a dark history for Debbie, who grew up in a violent home there, her daughter says. “You can hear my mom’s strength through how she sees the second line, how she sees love, how she sees what a Louisiana girl is. New Orleans became her savior. If you’re hurt and you leave, New Orleans is hope.”
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