Joaquina Kalukango’s show-stopping performance in the Broadway musical “Paradise Square” — especially her second act song “Let It Burn” — routinely drew audiences to their feet, a triumph of the season. She’s one of AP’s Breakthrough Entertainers of 2022.
“I always felt like I wanted more than anything to be connected to work that kind of shifts the paradigm, that makes people think, that gets people to talk in their communities, that asks questions,” she says.Raised in East Point, Georgia, Kalukango grew up singing Shania Twain and Whitney Houston. “I wanted to be a singer, but didn’t know that there was an actual path towards that,” she recalls.
“I literally remembered just getting full body feels still sitting in the audience, seeing people that looked like me telling this amazing story,” she says. Kalukango’s breakthrough happened when she landed a part in “Paradise Square” about Irish immigrants and Black Americans jostling to survive in New York City in 1863. Her role was widened and deepened until she was the star. Amazingly, she didn’t need to audition.
The past few years have been a coronation in many ways for this Broadway star. She recalls Sarah Paulson giving her a bear hug backstage after seeing her in “Slave Play.” She remembers popping champagne after her Tony win with her “Color Purple” co-stars Cynthia Erivo and Danielle Brooks.
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