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Description
  Brandy Norwood album "Never Say Never", is mainly about personal experiences with love and maturity. It was influenced by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey. Brandy presented a mature part of herself in the album, and also adult contemporary within urban pop sound for the album. Brandy Norwood album contribute about relationships/ breakups, and happiness.

Informative
  "Never Say Never" has a combination of R&B and Pop. In the 1990s, Brandy had a huge break up with her boyfriend, so she always kept a journal by her side to write her feelings down. Brandy had came up with an idea to create her feelings into a song for what teenagers are also going through. Teenagers are always going through some type of heart broken in their life. Overall, this album is about life experiences.

Persuasive
  Even though you don't hear from Brandy Norwood that much right now, but in the 90s, she was a mega star for a lot of reasons. Brandy has great smooth voice that sings about things you can relate and dance to. She also has songs that make you fall in love. The songs sound personal and believable which is well produced. The album rank to number 3 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling 160,000 copies in the first week, and remained 28 weeks on top of the chart. The seven songs of 14, were chosen to become world wide hits. Brandy won Grammy Awards for the best R&B Performance. If that's what you're looking for, then Brandy Norwood is the artist you should choose to listen to.

Definition

R&B is a music that combines elements of hip hop, soul, rhythm & blues, and funk. R&B is also popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed to urban African Americans, at a time when rocking, jazz based music with heavy beat. Rhythm and Blues was very known in 1950s where everyone knew about it. It was consisted of guitars, bass, drums, piano and saxophone. At that time, Contemporary R&B vocalist are often known for their use of popularized by vocalists such as Michael Jackson, R. Kelly, Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, and Mariah Carey.