Coming from a musical family (her father ran a gospel choir and her cousin is
rapper Snoop Dogg), Brandy Norwood was born on February 11, 1979 in McComb,
Mississippi but raised in California, where she first started singing in choirs
at the age of six. She went on to become a back-up singer with boy-band
Immature, which led to her own debut single “I Wanna Be Down”, a Number 1 in the
US R&B charts in 1993. Brandy's emotional range helped her 1994 self-titled
debut album sell over 4 million copies as she became one of America's hottest
new stars; she also starred in the successful...