A lot has changed for DJ and producer Marea Stamper since she left Chicago for London in 2017—including her stage name. In the 2010s, she earned worldwide renown as the Black Madonna, after a traditional dark-skinned icon of Mary venerated by her Catholic family. But the racial-justice movement that arose in response to George Floyd’s murder in May 2020 prompted her to reconsider that reference. That July , Stamper became the Blessed Madonna, and the next month she released a remix of the Dua Lipa single “Levitating” that featured Missy Elliott and Madonna. Within weeks, another collaboration with Dua Lipa followed: Stamper is the executive producer of Club Future Nostalgia , which collects 17 remixes of tracks from the Dua Lipa album Future Nostalgia involving dozens of artists. A

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