Brandy Norwood
Brandy Norwood in 2011, s_bukley / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Brandy Rayana Norwood
Place of Birth: McComb, Mississippi, U.S.
Date of Birth: February 11, 1979
Ethnicity: African-American
Brandy Norwood, also credited simply as Brandy, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has starred in the films Cinderella (1997) and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998).
Brandy is the daughter of Sonja (Bates) and Willie Norwood (William Ray Norwood), a gospel singer. Her brother is singer and actor Ray J. She is also known as Bran’Nu and B Rocka.
Brandy has a daughter with her former partner, record producer, composer, songwriter, and musician Big Bert.
Brandy’s paternal grandfather was W. T. Norwood (the son of Ray Norwood and Kitty Triplett). W. T. was born in Mississippi. Ray likely was the son of Martha Norwood. Kitty was the daughter of Dock Triplett and Mary F. Haynes.
Brandy’s paternal grandmother was Cecile/Cecil Friday (the daughter of Reuben Friday and Mattie Crosby). Cecile was born in Mississippi. Reuben was the son of Jack Friday and Maggie. Mattie was the daughter of Henry Crosby and Lizzie Metts.
Brandy’s maternal grandfather is Fred “Freddie” Bates (the son of Eugene W. Bates and Genora/Geornia Day). Fred was born in Mississippi. Through this line, Brandy is a first cousin, once removed, of blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter Bo Diddley. Eugene and Genora were Bo’s paternal grandparents.
Brandy’s maternal grandmother is named Mary Thompson. Two of Brandy’s great-great-grandparents were named Elijah Thompson and Delsey/Dolsy Marsalis.
She is said to be a cousin of rapper Snoop Dogg and professional wrestler Sasha Banks.
Sources: Brandy’s paternal grandmother, Cecile/Cecil Friday, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of Brandy’s paternal grandmother, Cecile/Cecil (Friday) Norwood – https://www.newspapers.com
Brandy is no way mixed there are many black people that have her features and are only black. People base being mixed on the most stupid things seriously. If a black person has brown skin they have to be mixed, if they have some what of a high nose bridge they have to be mixed, if there eyes looks similar to an asian person’s eyes they have to be mixed with asian. It’s like saying if a white girl has a round blumped ass they have to be mixed with black, doesn’t that sound stupid? Just like there are many white girls out there with an ass there are many black people out there with a high nose bridge and light skin and just so happen to have eyes like brandy. It’s such a stereotype that all black people have flat noses and skin as dark as tar and big ass pink lips with eyes the size of pool balls we all look different.
@liyah
Actually I have to disagree with you on the white girls.According to experts,since 1/3 the white population(74 million people) is supposed to have fairly recent black blood.The odds of those white girls with the junk in their trunk,actually having black blood is pretty good.Now as far as the facial stuff,your right unmixed Africans have that naturally.
Thumbs up. You are one of the few people i have met here that has actually travelled and seen the world
Just coz her mum is light with oriental features does not mean Brandy is mixed with anything. I’m African, and it’s amazing to see how diverse our people look. My grandfather is very lightskinned with slanted eyes, he passed it on to my mum and mum passed it on to me. I have a golden shade of brown skin, brown hair and slanted eyes, bearing in mind we’re pure Africans, with no foreign blood from anywhere. It’s therefore a facally to think that Africans or black people who don’t look like the way you expect them to look are mixed with anything else.
my younger sister’s got asian eyes too.. we’re pure africans but her facial features look asian but she’s darker than my older sister and i. im guessing you’re kenyan kikuyu..judging by the name?
Exactly. Just like me, I’m a male Munyoro from Hoima, Uganda and i’m light-skinned yet my twin sister is much darker.
She Looks Kind Of Asian, and her mom is light skinned and looks kind of asian as well.
Um Chinese people are usually light… so IDK why you would even mention her mother is “light skinned”. You must be thinking of Filipinos and any other Southeast Asian. Filipinos are usually darker than East Asians.
Oops I wrote this thinking I was on Kristin Kreuk’s page. LMFAO!!!!!!!!! Disregard my previous comment. I forgot I was on Brandy’s page. I have two tabs open….
Ilove brandy she so beautiful
She is mixed with something maybe native american or asian and a touch of white ,she is not totally black her mom is light skinned as hell
To be honest, I always thought she looked somewhat asian.
Her mother is not light kinned as hell she is light brown skin.