Brandy has revealed that she never initially envisioned herself acting during the early stages of her career.
The Boy Is Mine hitmaker reflected on her wide-ranging career, spanning music, film, television and Broadway, in a recent interview with Variety.
Speaking to the publication, Brandy explained that she had always seen herself solely as a singer.
“It’s beautiful because a lot of my life, I didn’t see for myself. Like I never saw an actress or I never saw mixing music with different opportunities,” she said. “All I saw was me wanting my voice to do a little bit of what Whitney (Houston)’s voice could do. And that was my dream.”
The singer noted that she went on to achieve remarkable success at a young age.
“When I first started, it just seemed like everything was possible,” the 47-year-old gushed. “And I was able to accomplish a lot at a very young age and just dream really big. I’m still dreaming big. It hasn’t stopped.”
Brandy began her acting career in 1993 with a role on the ABC sitcom Thea, before landing her own series, Moesha, in 1996. The show ran for six seasons and established her as a television star.
In 1997, she starred in the television film Cinderella, followed by her big-screen debut in 1998’s I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.
Reflecting on her extensive portfolio, Brandy admitted that balancing both careers proved challenging.
“The juggling was a bit difficult because my mom, who was my manager at the time, we were both new to it,” she told the publication. “We were going with the flow and just trying to be great at both career paths.”
The star continued, “But for me, never even seeing that that was a possibility for me, just doing anything I could to just reach more people with my music, but then to discover acting is also a passion, that was an amazing discovery.”
