SOLANGE KNOWLES MDOGO NA MSANII BEYONCE " NAJISKIA MKUBWA BAADA YA KUZAA MAPEMA NA KUPITIA DIVORCE " TAZAMA PICHA ZAKE NA INTERVIEW YAKE HAPA NDANI

Another day, another Solo slayage!

Solange Knowles may make some awesome music, but it’s her style game that’s captured the attention of fashion magazines across the world.  This month, the 27-year-old is posing it up for Harper’s Bazaar magazine’s April 2014 issue in a bright, springtime spread, and inside, she dishes about her first marriage to her high school sweetheart Daniel Smith, her recent move from New York to New Orleans and how experiencing different aspects of life has helped her reach her 30s before her 30s.

Here’s a few things we learned:

Her parents tried to talk her out of doing music

My parents constantly tried to talk me out of being an artist,” she says. “They had gone through the whole journey with my sister and just wanted me to have a normal teenage life.

I still stand behind the stuff I did early on, but I was on a record label and I didn’t have a lot of creative control,” she says. “Another side of that is just being young and having bad taste. There was plenty of that too.

She feels much older since she experienced marriage and motherhood at such an early age
I was lucky with Julez. I was completely lost when we moved to Idaho, out in the country, and I devoted everything to him. In a lot of ways, emotionally and mentally, I feel far older than 27.

Just going through a marriage and a divorce—which I essentially did by 21—will give you an insane amount of perspective on life.

Being organized helped her come into her own as a fashionista
You can pull images of me from seven to 14 years ago and I was absolutely nuts. I have always been drawn to interesting pieces and colors, but I didn’t quite know how to limit myself and make those statement pieces work. I had to stabilize our lives and stay in one place. It sounds silly, I know, but having space for my clothes made a huge difference. I was able to get organized, free myself of clutter, and develop a style that felt like me.
She considers her love life to be stable
Luckily, I dated all of the losers ages ago. My love life has been stable for a while,” she says, adding wryly, “It’s a f-cked-up thing—without conflict it’s a lot harder to write interesting songs.”

She’s hit her 30s before her 30s
“Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27,” she says. “For the first time in my life, I’m basing every decision around the idea of whether I want to do it or if I think it will be inspiring. And that’s paid off for me.”