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Brandyis dusting off her glass slipper.
Descendants, a musical about the children of famous Disney fairy-tale characters, became a hit on Disney Channel in 2015, withtwo sequels in 2017 and 2019.
Brandy inRodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella.Walt Disney Television / Courtesy: Everet
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In February 2021, Brandy told PEOPLE shefelt “blessed” to be chosenas the first Black woman to play the iconic fairytale character onscreen. She said the film “was ahead of its time” and “we just need to do more of it.”
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“I think that I was so just blessed and humbled to be chosen to be that vessel, to be the young girl that other Black girls could see. And just girls in general, just to see that this is possible. I was just so happy to be that person,” she said at the time.
“I’m pretty sure, I know, for other girls that look like me — Black girls that look like me — it inspired them to dream bigger and to know that they can do anything if they put their minds to it,” she added. “I know it inspired girls my age at that time.”
source: people.com
