10 Things You Should Know About RaVaughn
Get familiar with the superstar in waiting.
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10 Things You Should Know About RaVaughn Brown - If RaVaughn is not on your musical radar, she will soon be. This California-bred songstress, who is also one of our BET Music Matters artists, comes with some major vocal chops and heavy star-powered mentors. Check out this list of things to help you get to know this soon-to-be superstar better. (Photo: Columbia Records)
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Just Outside the City of Angels - RaVaughn, who is the eldest of three children, grew up in Carson, California, just outside Los Angeles. (Photo: Joey Foley/FilmMagic)
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Mama I Want to Sing - At nine years old, RaVaughn attended Los Angeles' performing arts center Amazing Grace Conservatory. There, she landed such stage roles as Dorothy in The Wiz and Deena in Dreamgirls. (Photo: WENN)
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The Re-Education of RaVaughn Brown - One of her biggest musical influences was Lauryn Hill. "Her album The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill made me want to be a singer," RaVaughn explained in one interview. "That’s when I decided I wanted to sing professionally.”(Photo: Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for GenArt)
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Dropping her own 411 - The soundscape RaVaughn says she is aiming for with her new music is old school Mary J. Blige circa What's the 411?. That was a time, she feels, "when you could feel what people were talking about... You felt like they’re talking to me, like that’s my story – that kind of music." (Photo: Paul A. Hebert/Getty Images)
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