![]() ![]() The boys in the audience - arms crossed and caps slightly askew - were looking less than pliable when the diminutive songstress took the stage, no backing DJ in sight. Goapele (pronounced “kwa-pa-LAY,” and meaning “to go forward” in Setswana) was there to warm up the audience for headlining hip hop crew Hieroglyphics. ![]() “I was one of maybe 15 women in the entire place, and that included the cocktail waitresses.” Looking out on the crowd, she realized that it “was 99 percent high school boys.” Even her band, the Heat, was all-male. At a recent show at the Fillmore, Goapele found herself part of a tiny minority.
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