Brandy Norwood

“I think seeing four Black women on television leading a show, it’s a beautiful thing.”

NOSTALGIA FOR THE ’90S IS MORE POPULAR THAN EVER. YOU CAN SEE IT in fashion, music and, of course, television. Now Brandy Norwood, one of the women (October 19). “If you’re not from the ’90s, you want to either be from the ’90s, or you wish you could have witnessed a lot of the things,” she says. The show follows a fictional hip-hop girl group getting back together in modern day to rekindle the magic. Eve, Naturi Naughton and Nadine Velazquez fill out the rest of the cast: “Our bond and our energy together, we lift each other up. It’s like a real group.” But fundamentally the show serves as a statement for something that is desperately lacking on television: diversity. “I think seeing four Black women on television leading a show, it’s a beautiful thing,” Norwood says. With her sitcom being added to Netflix and the 1997 live action TV film streaming on Disney+, Brandy is having her own ’90s resurgence: “It’s just great that a new generation gets to feel the magic.”