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Celeste took our breath away with a grungier, angrier sound than the floaty jazz-soul of her debut.

In 1985, she was proclaimed half of the “most amusing twosome” in Celeste Walker’s “Reunion in Bartersville,” a play about members of a Black, small-town Texas high school’s Class of 1933 who reunite 50 years down the line.

Johnson sang with Jungle when they headlined the West Holts Stage last year, while his bandmate Barney Lister is an award-nominated writer/producer for acts like Joy Crookes, Celeste, Olivia Dean and Obongjayar.

Costume designer Celeste Jennings illustrates their differences through clothing choices that reflect Sade’s more marginalized status and Mina’s more assimilated reality.

Celeste traveled from Peru to the U.S. two decades ago, then a young woman of 19, and overstayed her tourist visa.