Brandy - The Queen Of R&b

By Author: Mr James Griffith
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Brandy Norwood is a multi platinum selling R&B music artist famed for her classic R&B songs and cool R&B music videos. In 1993 she signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records and then released her debut album entitled Brandy which spawned the classic Brandy hits I Wanna Be Down, Baby and Best Friend. The cool Brandy music videos, which were used to promote these singles were huge hits on MTV and so a new R&B teen sensation was born with her debut album eventually selling over four million copies.Her second album Never Say Never was released in June 1998 and included the monster hit The Boy Is Mine featuring fellow R&B star Monica which topped the charts for an amazing 13 weeks. The stylish R&B music video for the The Boy Is Mine was directed by Joseph Khan and is considered one of the Brandy`s best music videos. More hit singles followed including Top Of The World with another great Brandy music video and Almost Doesn't Count helping Never Say Never to sell 14 million copies worldwide. Never Say Never also received no less than four ...
... Grammy awards including Record of the Year for The Boy Is Mine. Brandy's third studio album Full Moon was released in February 2002 and it featured the worldwide smash single What About Us with a another stylishBrandy music video. Full Moon debuted at number 2 on the Billboard Top 100 selling 160,000 copies in its first week. It also featured the radio friendly hit It's Not Worth it notable because it has Michael Jackson on background vocals and was originally slated for his Invincible album. The second single to be released was the title track entitled Full Moon and it was the last single to feature a Brandy music video to support its release. Brandys fourth album released in June 2004 was entitled Afrodisiac and this album was a break away from Brandy working with Rodney Jerkins. This time she choose Hip hop super producer Timbaland who produced the majority of the album. The album debuted at number 3 on the billboard charts and its first single Talk About Our Love featuring Kanye West was a top ten hit in the UK and again was accompanied by another stylish Brandy music video. Other singles released of this album including the title track Afrodisiac and Who Is She 2 U. Brandy`s next albums released was entitled Human in 2008 and spawned the hit Right Here Departed and gave Brandy her biggest hit since 2002s What About Us. The cool Brandy music video that accompanied this single was directed by Hype Williams and the Hollywood actor Donald Faison played her love interest. There has been a huge explosion of music video websites on the internet in recent years. All offering an exciting platform to watch the very latest music videos. One such online website is Urban-Nation.com. Urban-Nation.com is the coolest new Hip hop and R&B music website. It has cool profiles, chat rooms, hip hop music news, R&B music news, the latest Rap & Hip hop music videos and R&B music videos and the coolest members too! Urban-Nation.com also has a brand new section where you can view exciting new music profiles for the biggest names in Hip hop and R&B music where you can read all about Lil Wayne, Drake, Eminem, T.I, Mario, Usher, Mariah Carey, Akon, Omarion, Beyonce, The Game, Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, Chris Brown, Bow Wow, Cassie, Ne-Yo, Timbaland, Chipmunk, Kano and watch some of their hottest music videos too.
About the Author:

James Griffith is a freelance writer from London specialising in writing Hip hop and R&B music articles. Over the years he has developed an extensive knowledge of urban music and urban music artists and is considered one of the leading authorities on this subject. With a passion for Hip hop and R&B music since childhood, James Griffith brings great knowledge and a great understanding of this exciting music genre and his articles are both informative and entertaining too.