Brandy To Star In ABC’s Hip-Hop Drama Pilot ‘Queens’

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EXCLUSIVE: ABC’s Queens continues to assemble a killer lead cast. In her return to the network, Cinderella star Brandy has signed on as a co-lead opposite Eve and Naturi Naughton in the hourlong pilot from Zahir McGhee, Sabrina Wind and ABC Signature.2020-21 ABC Pilots & Series OrdersLike Eve, Brandy will record and perform original songs for the show as her character.

McGhee and Wind executive produce.Brandy, one of the biggest music and TV stars of the 1990s, is now reaching a new generation of young fans as ABC’s classic 1997 TV movie version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, in which Brandy starred with the late Whitney Houston, made a splashy debut on Disney+ last month.On TV, Brandy Norwood headlined the popular 1996 sitcom