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Brandy In Atlanta
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
PHOTO CREDIT: FreddyO/freddyo.com
For a minute Wednesday evening it felt like Atlanta Music Scene circa the late ’90s at 595 North.
In the audience for V-103’s Soul Session was Grammy winners Monica and Q and Daron from 112, Brandon from Jagged Edge and recent transplant Sunshine Anderson.
And on stage - after opening act Slim from 112 - was 1998 Grammy winner Brandy, back on the scene in support of her latest CD “Human” — and welcomed by the listeners of the city’s top radio station like it hadn’t been six years since her last major hit. (Though the video for recent single “Right Here” has topped BET’s “106 & Park” daily countdown; and — as she noted from the stage — new single “Long Distance” “is getting played in Atlanta, thanks to [V-103 program director] Reggie [Rouse]”).
An energetic and appreciative Brandy started the free mini-concert with “What About Us” and “Full Moon,” sung to a track, but in full, familiar voice. Midset she brought Monica (above with Brandy) on stage — with whom she won their first Grammy — to sing that winning hit, “The Boy Is Mine”. And after inviting an extra-excited guy in the crowd up with her to serenade — a favor he returned with a good version of her breakthrough 1994 single “I Wanna Be Down” — she closed with “Right Here”.
Minutes later in the VIP area upstairs, a throng that included “Project Runway’s” Mychael Knight, former WSB-TV anchor JaQuitta Williams and V-103 personalities Joyce Littel, Greg Street, Miss Sophia and Tangie waited to have their picture taken with the multi-million seller. And when Brandy heard Miss Sophia’s voice just outside the door, she peeked out of her room and yelled “Miss Sophia I told everybody you have a big mouth!” To which the playful entertainment reporter on The Frank and Wanda Morning Show replied: “Uh huh - that’s why I’m gonna bust you in the face!”
Were you at 595 North last night? Bought “Human” or Slim’s “Love’s Crazy” yet — and if so, what do you think?
Comments
By RachelB
January 6, 2009 6:49 PM | Link to this
OMg, i was there in the FRONT ROW!!!!!! SHE GRABBED MY HAND LIKE 30 TIMES!!!! IT WAS AMAZING! I AM HER BIGGEST FAN! SHE NEEDS TO COME BACK!
CANT WAIT TIL SHE TOURS!!!!