Our girl Brandy is killing the cover and pages of Uptown Magazine’s new issue where she dishes on her run on Broadway and everything she has going on.
The spread adds to Brandy’s packed year which so far has included her recently extended run as Roxie Hart in Chicago, her upcoming new BET series Zoe Moon which debuts this fall, her new album set for arrival soon as well as her rumored and unconfirmed role as Dorothy in the Broadway/TV remake of The Wiz.
Check out some of the interview excerpts.
On how playing Roxie Hart in Chicago changed her life: “I stepped into something that I was born to do and I didn’t know it. I walked on the stage and my entire life reawakened … It’s about making people feel good about themselves and helping people dream. The vain stuff, like the pictures I took for this magazine and being in shows, I love! But it is all just the polish. I’m not a celebrity. A star guides. There is a difference.”
On the late Whitney Houston: “I think about her every day. She is everywhere. She is with me all the time. She’s always there. Whitney was the possibility of dreams coming true. I loved her. I loved her personality. I loved the way she danced. I loved her smile and her voice.”
On co-parenting: “We are a family and that’s the new phase of our life. Everything is different now and I’m just really thankful and grateful for it.”
On her breakup with Ryan Press: “Ryan [Press] and I were just two completely different people and we found that out when we were already in love with each other. Sometimes it happens. It hurt him, it hurt me and it hurt my daughter. It was a really hard time and another phase of the sadness that was a cloud for a while.”
On what she’s learned from relationships: “I will not mix business with pleasure anymore. I think that’s one of the things that does not work for me. I get confused about who a person is. That’s one of the things that I know that I will never ever do if I am ever to have time or make time for another relationship.”
On wanting to play Dorothy in the highly-anticipated revival of The Wiz: “I am Dorothy and I am meant to do it on Broadway. Portraying Dorothy is a dream and I just want to experience my dreams. That’s what life is about. God created us to thrive.”
On new music: “It’s going to be five amazing songs that are very, very authentic. It has nothing to do with fitting in. This will be my own thing and my own way. Brandy is not in a box anymore. I really want to sing songs about the way I dream of feeling about love. It’s not about the love that I’ve experienced before, it’s about the love that I want to receive.”
Get into Bran’s hot snaps and read her full article HERE.
