Overview
- This week’s Interview Magazine feature reports that 20-year-old Beata MonaLisa is finishing a nine-song debut album she described as “pro-queer, anti-macho.”
- She has adopted the stage surname MonaLisa from her grandmother and great-grandmother to distance her public persona from the Thunberg name.
- When asked about Greta Thunberg in the interview, Beata declined to discuss her, saying, “I’m not responsible for other people’s lives.”
- Beata has performed at queer events and described the queer community as central to her audience; she said she wrote a tribute song called “You’re the Upgrade” and that one album track pokes fun at President Trump.
- She is the daughter of opera singer Malena Ernman and Svante Thunberg, trained herself in dance and song from early childhood, and previously released a Spotify single at 15 that had modest success.