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MEET BRANDY, RAY J & MOM: The Norwoods give you an update
Mom Sonja's looking for writer for her book. Interested? Read on.
However, whether or not her protective and demanding antics were fact or fiction, Sonja Norwood has developed, encouraged, and raised two of the biggest names in urban music – Brandy and Ray J. In addition, she has launched and managed an independent record label among the male-dominated major powerhouse labels (with the help of her star offspring). Sounds like the perfect author of a “How To” series, don’t it?
“I think that there are a lot of things that I have experienced and I’d like to share information with people,” Sonja said of her idea to write a book. “If I can help people to avoid certain things that I’ve been through or that we’ve been through as a family, I’d like to be able to share. Like getting your kids in the business early, how to keep your kids grounded, definitely for artists that are trying to do an independent label – the struggles and the journeys that you go through, and not knowing what those steps are and what you could do differently, and just various things that would be able to help people.”
Ms. Norwood hasn’t really focused on the subject matter. She says that her expertise as a manager, as a label executive, and as a mother, and combinations of the three, would all make fine topics for her book (or books for that matter), but at the moment, she’s looking for someone to center her thoughts.
“I can’t mix mother advice with the industry, so I sort of need someone to help me figure out what’s the most important message for me to get out first,” she told EUR’s Lee Bailey. “I’ve been putting bits and pieces together. I’ve categorized certain things, like when I talk about being a mother. And then I’ve got another folder where I’ve put things as a manager. I need someone to help me sort through it and say, ‘What is the most important message that you want to share?’ What that is, I don’t’ really know yet.”
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