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Michelle Williams talks to the CBS station in Philadelphia about her journey on tour with Fela! and her upcoming album. View interview below:

YOU HEARD IT here first, people: Destiny’s Child’s Michelle Williams may very well be psychic. Bear with me now. Williams, who is starring in “Fela!” at the Merriam Theater starting Tuesday and running through Sunday, became a fan of Fela Kuti’s music about five years ago through a friend. “I love the groovy music where the bass could go on for hours,” Williams told me. So, she started researching as much as she could about the Afrobeat musician and political activist. “I didn’t know I was preparing myself for this role.”

Michelle Williams, one part of the famous trio Destiny’s Child, got hooked on Fela Kuti’s music a few years ago. “I became a fan maybe five or six years ago,” she said. Kuti, a Nigerian composer and activist, who created his own type of music, Afrobeat — a style of music in which he mixed pounding eclectic rhythms with strong political lyrics — became something of a fascination for Williams. “He politicized his music. He knew something was wrong, that his country corrupt. So he put that into his music.”

Jan. 23, 2013. A long mirrored rehearsal room in midtown Manhattan, the floorboards gleaming but the corners piled high with walking shoes, backpacks, cellphones and scarves. A count is called, the drums kick in and bodies begin to move around the room. From upstage, Michelle Williams begins to sing, sending a shiver through an atmosphere, as downtowner Richard Hell once remarked, “so packed with cash.” It is the last day of dress rehearsals for “Fela!” before the show hits the road, traveling to 16 cities in six months, and the producers (including Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter; Will and Jada Pinkett Smith; and Ruth and Stephen Hendel) have invited the media in…

Since the Super Bowl, pop-culture chatter has essentially revolved around Beyoncé — her HBO special, her world tour, her GQ cover. But let’s not forget about the other members of Destiny’s Child — especially the one who’s starring in a Broadway show, planning a new reality TV show, and dealing gracefully with her haters. Grammy-winning Michelle Williams is taking the lead in Fela!, a musical tribute to Fela Kuti, the Nigerian singer who created Afrobeat as a musical genre and used it to speak out against government corruption. The highly acclaimed song-and-dance show is headed to Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center March 19. We spoke to Williams about the stigma of…

Michelle Williams spoke about her role in the play, as well as those rumors about an official Destiny’s Child reunion to Atlanta’s Majic 107.5 during Atlanta’s press week. Catch up on the interview if you missed it last week.