HOLLYWOOD, Calif. \u2014 It’s been a long time coming for Grammy-winning singer Brandy, who now has her very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame \u2014 a milestone that comes after decades of chart-topping hits.<\/p>\n
Her star, near the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Argyle Avenue, was unveiled during a ceremony Monday.<\/p>\n
It was a moment she had dreamt of since her time at nearby Hollywood High.<\/p>\n
“Seeing the stars on the Walk of Fame lit something in me. It made me believe, it made me affirm over my own life: I’m going to sing my way onto one of these stars… and I DID!”<\/p>\n
The multi-platinum selling award-winner is an influential figure in R&B music. Her roles on television and film have also had a lasting impacts on pop culture.<\/p>\n
The sitcom “Moesha” inspired a generation including “Insecure” creator Issa Rae, who spoke at the unveiling ceremony.<\/p>\n
“Brandy made Moesha someone I wanted to befriend, the girl I wanted to be. At a time when beauty standards on television looked nothing like us, Brandy was the standard,” Rae said.<\/p>\n
And who can forget Brandy as Cinderella or Roxie Hart in “Chicago” on Broadway?<\/p>\n
Her famous friends, including Monica, Kehlani and Jenifer Lewis joined her family and droves of her fans Monday as more than three decades of career accomplishments were set in stone.<\/p>\n
“She sustained and lived the spectrum of her dream,” Lewis said.<\/p>\n
Brandy humbly called it all a blessing.<\/p>\n
“I knew it was going to be emotional, but I didn’t know how emotional it was going to be. I’m so grateful. This is unbelievable,” Brandy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOLLYWOOD, Calif. \u2014 It’s been a long time coming for Grammy-winning singer Brandy, who now has her very…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1302,2692,3811,88,3812,134,3729,216,3,3813,3814,99,1505,2987,92,3324,2986],"class_list":{"0":"post-557778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-cars","9":"tag-celebrity","10":"tag-classifieds","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-homes","13":"tag-jobs","14":"tag-local","15":"tag-music","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-radio","18":"tag-salt-lake","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-television","21":"tag-traffic","22":"tag-tv","23":"tag-utah","24":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}