“Every single room that we rehearse in or even every session that I step into, I pray,” she says. Normani starts each day with a meditation, sometimes watching sermons like those of Sarah Jakes Roberts, sometimes just talking to God. And she brings her faith with her both places. She’s been songwriting and reviewing tracks on the road, and says it’s nice to be able to express herself off-stage as well as on. When we meet, she’s grateful to be in a recording studio. Normani’s most important tour practices seem to be her creative and spiritual ones. “It’s just really cool for me to be on the biggest tour of the year, with the biggest pop star in the world right now, and highlight in such a way.” “They are the baddest group of women that I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with,” Normani says. Normani has been performing with a coalition of black women artists: her keyboardist, drummer, guitarist, and dancers. One of those things was the power of black women. This really is the first time that people are kind of getting a sense of who Normani is, so it was really important for me to just ask myself the questions, What do you want? What do you want people to take away after they see your performance?” “But I have the wisdom of a seasoned artist because I’ve been doing it for so long. “I’m a new artist,” she says, before pausing thoughtfully.
She dreamt up her set herself, and brought it to life with her creative partners, like the choreographer Sean Bankhead. Normani experienced a new sense of ownership over this tour that guided her preparation. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Normani revealed that she was. But I would try to work out maybe three times a week, which is good for me. Normani has opened up about her past experience as a member of Fifth Harmony and her former bandmate’s resurfaced racist posts. And then I’m going to go to rehearsal.’ That didn’t end up happening because my body was sore after rehearsal, therefore, I couldn’t wake up the next morning and work out. I told myself, ‘I’m gonna work out every single day. “I tried to…” she says, smiling to herself and shaking her head. On the road, she’ll snack on apples, peanut butter, and berries. She fueled her body with salads, smoothies, and lots and lots of water. With eight-hour-long days of rehearsals in preparation for the tour, she didn’t go completely vegan, à la Beyoncé for Coachella, but she did try to avoid meat. She has sacrificed pizza, a favorite when in New York City, but hasn’t given up ice cream she just gets it vegan from Van Leeuwen. Prior to and during the tour, Normani has also been on a skin-conscious diet: avoiding dairy, which she says breaks her out. (Normani’s beauty advice to Grande? To wear her hair down on a few stops of the tour. She has to remind Grande to send her the name of it. “It hurt like hell taking it off, but it worked,” she says. When I ask her for the best beauty advice she’s gotten from Grande, she fawns over a Korean blackhead-removing charcoal mask the ponytailed pop star introduced her to.
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