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A DIFFERENT WORLD premieres September 24th on Netflix!

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Baby- BoopBop- Rai Rai- Rootah- My EVERYTHING Watching you arrive at this moment has been one of the greatest honors of my life. You turned every challenge into courage, every ache into art, and every lesson into a deeper knowing of who you are. You found your voice, your sound, your team, and the music that belongs only to you. You never let anything take your gift. You are the pearl in the rough. Nothing could bury your brilliance. It only revealed it. Congratulations on your first body of work, my beautiful daughter. You are not here to echo anyone. You are here to leave a sound that is entirely your own. I am so proud to be your mother. I love you beyond words. This is only the beginning. 🤍 #SyraiCOLDWAR @Rai

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There are dreams… and then there are moments that feel as though they were written in the stars long before you ever arrived. ✨👑🩵🩵 To become a @disney Disney Princess was already beyond anything my younger self could have imagined. But to now stand among the beautiful legacy of Disney Princesses, to know that I am forever a part of this magical family, is something I will never take for granted. And there is an even deeper meaning for me. To have been the first Black Cinderella, and to know that the door we walked through helped make the kingdom wider for the beautiful Black princesses who would come after me, is one of the greatest honors of my life. What Whitney Houston @whitneyhouston and Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella gave us was bigger than a movie. We showed a generation of little Black girls that the glass slipper could fit them, too. That they could be soft and powerful. Regal and magical. Seen, celebrated, chosen, and centered in the fairytale. And then came more history. @anikaaroundtheworld Anika Noni Rose gave us the beautiful Princess Tiana. Halle Bailey @hallebailey brought a new generation under the sea as Ariel. And today, I get to look around at this ever-expanding kingdom and feel the magnitude of what representation can become when one door opens… and we keep holding it open for one another. 👑🩵🩵🩵 From Cinderella at 18 to Queen Cinderella today, this journey continues to feel like divine poetry. I once stepped into a glass slipper. I could never have imagined the footprints it would leave behind. Thank you, Disney, for allowing me to live inside the magic, and for letting that magic keep growing. ✨🏰👑🩵🩵🩵 Forever grateful. Forever Cinderella. 🩵🩵🩵

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What is a voice? Is it only sound? Or can a voice become a doorway? A mirror? A place where someone who has never seen themselves at the center of the dream… finally does? Lea Salonga’s voice has never been only a voice. It has been a doorway. A mirror. A home. There are singers who reach notes. Lea reaches people. Through Jasmine and Mulan… she did more than give princesses their songs. She gave children who had been waiting outside the fairytale… a way inside. Before many people knew how to speak about representation… Lea had already turned it into sound. Her voice told millions of children: You are not outside the magic. You are part of it. Long before Hollywood knew her name… a seven-year-old girl in the Philippines stepped onstage. The world did not know her yet… but purpose was already pronouncing her name. Her voice crossed oceans… conquered Broadway… made her the first Asian woman to win a Tony Award… and made her a Disney Legend. Her history is filled with firsts. But “first” is not the deepest word in her story. The deepest word… is “after.” Who could dream after her? Who could enter after her? Who could walk through… because she left the doorway open? Lea did not merely become possible. She made possibility contagious. A few weeks ago… I had the blessing of singing A Whole New World beside her. I have sung my entire life… but I could barely hold my own. Because when Lea opened her mouth… I stopped being the singer beside her… and became a witness. The precision of her voice is extraordinary. Her range is astonishing. But the deepest measure of her gift… is not the note she can reach. It is the truth she can carry. Her voice is what happens when discipline meets surrender… when technique becomes spirit… when a gift becomes grace. The world knows the gold in her voice. I had the blessing of discovering the gold in her heart. To carry that much greatness… and still make the person beside you feel completely seen… that is the rarest kind of power. Today… Lea becomes the first Filipina honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. But this star is more than recognition. It is evidence. Evidence that where you begin… can never limit how far your gift can travel. One day… a little Filipina girl will place her hand over Lea’s name. She may never know every sacrifice it took for that star to be there. She will simply know… that Lea belongs there. And because Lea belongs there… she may believe that she does too. That is what a trailblazer gives the world: what she once had to enter as impossible… the next generation inherits as belonging. Lea… your voice gave princesses their songs. Your courage gave generations a doorway. Your life gave the world proof. And your heart… made the light warm enough for all of us to stand inside it. Hollywood is giving you a star today. But this star does not make you light. It simply tells the ground… what the sky has always known. Your name is beneath our feet. Your legacy is before us. And your light… will always belong to the sky. I love you. I honor you. Congratulations, Lea. ⭐️

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A ⭐️ is reborn. #PHASES is available everywhere books are sold.

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Thank you @Variety ♥️

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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. I am beyond grateful. A star on the Walk of Fame is a definition of legacy. It doesn’t just celebrate your success — it cements your story. It doesn’t just honor your work — it immortalizes your light. It is a symbol that says..you didn’t just arrive — you endured. You didn’t just dream — you became. I didn’t get here by myself. To every person who saw something in me before the world did… To every hand that reached for me when I was still reaching for myself… To every room that made space for me — and even the ones that didn’t… Thank you. To my family… for the foundation. For the prayers, covering, and for loving me before this journey even existed. To every mentor, collaborator, creative, and believer who poured into me along the way— you are a part of this star. This moment brings so much meaning back to my life. Because if the little girl from McComb, Mississippi… could come to Hollywood… look down at those stars… and dare to believe that one day her name would be among them… then anything is possible. Today I stand grateful, humbled, inspired… and most of all, I stand as living proof… that what you speak over your life with faith, consistency, and belief…can one day meet you in reality.

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Just lovely 🩶🩶🩶♾️♾️♾️ @Derek blanks @Makeupartistgaby @Devante Turnbull @Ms Jackie Thomas Hanisch, Ashley Sean Thomas, Kimberly Batino thank you all for being my guiding lights. Love y’all sooooo much🩶🩶🩶🩶♾️♾️♾️♾️ #teambrandy

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REWIND… ⏪ September 27, 1994. The day I WAS BORN as an artist. My debut album #brandy was released, and the dream I had carried as a little girl became something I could hold in my hands… my name on the cover, my whole heart in the music. One of the happiest days of my entire life. Everything I dreamed of becoming… a singer, a dancer, an actress, an artist… was alive in that girl. She had so much she wanted to give. She still does. Music means everything to me. It has held so many versions of who I am, and somehow, through every change, it still recognizes me. There are parts of my heart I have only ever been able to reach by singing. To have shared those parts with you for thirty-two years… God, thank You for a life that has allowed my soul to speak. And now, watching my beautiful daughter, Sy’rai, follow her own voice… I understand that a dream can come true and still have more to give you. Once, I was the little girl reaching. Now I get to watch my little girl reach for hers. There are places in a mother’s heart that only her child can awaken. Sharing the stage with Usher and Kehlani this weekend, being among my creative peers… I felt that divine spark burning so beautifully. The passion. The love. The joy of creating together. After all these years, music can still make me feel like something extraordinary is about to begin. To everyone who has made room for my voice in your life… thank you. For singing with me. For growing with me. For letting something that began in my heart become part of yours. Today, I wish I could hold that girl from 1994 and let her feel how deeply we are loved. How much her dream would mean. How much wonder was still waiting. Thirty-two years later… I still have butterflies. And somehow… I feel like I’m just getting started. 🩶♾️🩶@Usher Raymond @Kehlani @Rai 📸 @Mr_Dadams 🩶♾️🩶 #brandyREWIND1994-♾️

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haaaaayyyyy 🩶🩶🩶 What a magical moment when the stars align… and the love you’ve poured into the world finds its way back to you through music, memories, and the sweetest embraces. ✨ Kehlani… @Kehlani thank you for inviting your fairy godmother and my whole crew into your world. Sharing that stage with you was such a gift. You are a true superstar and a vocal GOAT of your generation… with a heart every bit as beautiful as your voice. Thank you for the love you continue to show me, for pouring into me, and for making sure I feel every drop. I love you so much. 🤍 And to share all of this with my beautiful daughter, Sy’rai @Rai … my heart walking beside me, making a new memory while so many old ones came home. That is the part I’ll hold closest. God, thank You for a life that still finds ways to surprise me… and for moments I wish I could fold up and carry forever. I’m on cloud 9… somebody pinch me.🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶 📸 @Mr_Dadams

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#NYFW #NYFDayAndNight — Just #1 INCREDIBLE SHOW…. and it was so divine, my heart had everything it came for. 🤍 Christian Siriano…. the work of art in black you dressed me in made me feel like a top model…. a cover girl all over again. There is something so beautiful about returning to a world and realizing you still belong there…. that a place has always been waiting for you. I feel so blessed to be in the fashion universe again…. to let myself be seen, to play, to discover how much of me is still waiting to be expressed. To my #glamfamily Ashley Sean Thomas, Gaby, J Stay Ready, Kimberly Batino and Alaina Simone …. thank you for making me feel as beautiful as the love you pour into me. And Mr. Dalvin Adams …. your lens has awakened a new woman. Looking at these photographs, I recognize myself…. and I’m meeting myself, too. #bullsEYEniceShots What a blessing to create with people who help you see yourself with fresh eyes…. and make you excited about who you’re becoming. Still glowing…. still unfolding…. and the cover girl in me is smiling. 🤍🤍🤍 Deep gratitude to Sophia Lowe 🤍🤍🤍@Christian Siriano @Mr_Dadams @JStayReady @Makeupartistgaby @Sophialowe

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hayyyyyy…🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍 I don’t think I’ve been to Fashion Week since my twenties…. wow. There is a whole lifetime between the young woman who went then and the woman returning now. What a gift to still have moments that open your eyes a little wider and remind your heart how much beauty there is left to experience. To the incomparable Christian Siriano…. @christiansiriano your invitation meant more than you know. Thank you for welcoming me, my amazing stylist Ashley Sean Thomas , and our entire team Kimberly Batino, Alaina Simone with such warmth. To be surrounded by your imagination and embraced like family was the most beautiful welcome back. Ash…. thank you for expanding my mind through fashion and helping me see possibilities in myself I hadn’t imagined. You have a way of seeing something in me and lovingly inviting me to see it, too. Thank you for bringing me back to Fashion Week and to Christian’s show…. for reminding me that there are still parts of myself waiting to be expressed. Dalvin…. @dalvinadams825 these photographs are so beautiful. Thank you for giving this feeling somewhere to live long after the moment has passed. Gaby…. @makeupartistgaby thank you for the artistry and care in every detail of my makeup. And Jay…. @jstayready_ thank you for the love and creativity you poured into this look. And that platinum blonde…. I felt UNSTOPPABLE. Bold, free, and still discovering all the ways I get to be me. I hope you all felt the love…. it was in every smile, every thank you, and every moment I wished would last a little longer. 🤍 Love bran 🤍🤍🤍 Special thank you to @sophialowe for taking good care of all of us.. true soldier Love you 🤍🤍🤍 @Christian Siriano @Mr_Dadams @JStayReady @Makeupartistgaby @Whoopi Goldberg @TIFFANY HADDISH @Billy Porter @iamjojoofficial