Brandy, the Underrated Artist Who Rubbed Shoulders with Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson Comes Back to Claim Her Hole as a Star

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Brandy Rayana Norwood, known artistically as Brandy (Mississippi, 47), is a multifaceted woman. And not very modest. “Songer, actress, creator, icon,” she describes herself in her Instagram profile, where she is followed by 6.1 million people. Self-proclaiming “icon” may sound pretentious, but Brandy can do so because at the end of last January the artist received the Black Music Icon Award, one of the biggest awards that the Black Music Collect…