Blue Ivy Carter narrates audiobook Hair Love
Hair Love is a story about a Black father learning to do his daughter’s hair
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Your support makes all the difference.Beyoncé and Jay Z’s eldest daughter Blue Ivy Carter will narrate the audiobook for Hair Love, based on Matthew Cherry’s Oscar-winning short film.
Cherry announced the eight-year-old would be narrating the audiobook on Monday on Twitter, where he shared a sample audio clip along with an illustration of the book by Vashti Harrison.
“Dreamscape Presents: Hair Love by Matthew A Cherry. Narrated by Blue Ivy Carter,” Blue Ivy can be heard saying in the Audible clip for Hair Love, which tells the story of a Black father, Stephen, learning to do his daughter Zuri’s hair.
In a longer clip on Audible’s website, Blue Ivy reads: “When my hair is in two puffs, I’m above the clouds, like a superhero! My hair even does magic tricks. One day Rocky and I were playing outside when along came the rain. From large-small, it went ‘Presto!,’ just like that.
“There’s nothing my hair can’t do!”
Beginning as a Kickstarter campaign in 2017, the short film won an Academy Award in February.
At the time, Cherry said during his acceptance speech that the story was created to “normalise Black hair”.
Hair Love was also released as a children’s book in May with illustrations by Harrison, while HBO announced over the summer that it had ordered an animated series by Cherry called Young Love that will “expand” on the family in Hair Love.
Blue Ivy’s latest project comes after she became the youngest-ever female artist to debut on the Billboard Hot 100, and became the youngest recipient of the BET for her song Brown Skin Girl, a collaboration with Beyoncé, WizKid and Saint Jhn.
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