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P&P Live! Gerrick Kennedy — Didn't We Almost Have It All - with Brandy

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February 11, 2022

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Didn't We Almost Have It All is author Gerrick Kennedy’s exploration of the duality of Whitney’s life as both a woman in the spotlight and someone who often had to hide who she was. This is the story of Whitney’s life, her whole life, told with both grace and honesty, lead with by a foreword by Brandy.

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Gerrick Kennedy is an award-winning journalist, cultural critic, and author based in Los Angeles. Kennedy is the author of Parental Discretion Is Advisted: The Rise of N.W.A. and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap. His writing has appeared in GQ, WSJ, Magazine, NPR Music, Spin, Playboy, Teen Vogue, Shondaland, Cultured Magazine, Men’s Health, and the Los Angeles Times.

Kennedy is in conversation with Brandy Norwood , a multi-platinum, Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, producer and actress. Born into a musical family, the Mississippi-bred daughter of Willie and Sonja Norwood emerged as a teenage sensation in the ‘90s with her 3x-platinum self-titled debut album, a hit sitcom Moesha and as the star of Disney’s television adaptation of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella alongside her idol Whitney Houston and a multi-cultural cast of icons that attracted over 60 million viewers. She has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide and is ranked as one of the best-selling female artists in American music history by the RIAA, having sold more than 11 million albums in the United States. Last fall, Brandy made a return to television with a starring role on ABC’s hip-hop musical drama Queens and is currently at work on her eighth album.

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