Brandon Rossi

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Multi-talented Brandon Rossi started out as a songwriter and producer, signing to Jay-Z's Roc Nation before launching a career as a rapper and singer. Born in 1984 in Decatur, Georgia, just outside Atlanta, he grew up in a family where almost every member was either a preacher or a musician; his cousins played with Frankie Beverly & Maze. He caught the music bug in first grade upon watching the film The Wiz, and listened to hip-hop with his older brother, idolizing Outkast and other rappers in the then-burgeoning Atlanta scene. In high school he chose to pursue music as a career rather than taking the cloth, aiming to emulate the success of his idols. He attended Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, where he was introduced to producer Rico Love, who had worked with Usher. Rossi's early demos were rejected by major labels, so he took ...
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