A wife and mother to daughter Riley and son Ace, Kandi hails from a large, supportive clan whom she credits for her outspoken nature. Right after that, I started managing my high-school friend Richard Wingo’s group Jagged Edge and helped them get their record deal.”Įver since, Burruss has drawn on the things she considers foundational in her life - family and her faith - to help guide her in business. It got me thinking about what else I could do. “I turned to Tiny and said, ‘I’m going to get that award one day.’ Queen Latifah inspired me to believe I was going to conquer the world, just like she did. “When she won, Latifah was a music artist, an actress, and had a successful management company,” Burruss says. (“LL Cool J told me back then: ‘Always have at least one house and one car that you own, so you always have a place to live and a way to get around,’” she recalls.) That same year, Burruss attended the Soul Train Music Awards and watched Queen Latifah accept the Sammy Davis Jr. You could say that Burruss’ financial course was charted when the success of Xscape, who got their first record deal when Burruss was 16, enabled her to purchase her first home in 1995 at the age of 19. I was trying to figure out how not to be one of those people.” So many people get into music, do well, then they go broke. You might have a good run of songs, but then you may not be popping them off so quick. “Music is up and down,” says Burruss, who is the first woman to win ASCAP’s Rhythm & Soul Music Award for Songwriter of the Year and who has written hit songs for Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran, Pink, Whitney Houston, Destiny’s Child, ‘N Sync, Mariah Carey, Usher, Alicia Keys, Boys II Men, and TLC, including the latter’s Grammy-winning smash “No Scrubs.” “One minute you’re hot, one minute you’re not. Burruss, a social media influencer with six million Instagram followers, also appeared on the second season of CBS’ Celebrity Big Brother. Currently, Burruss’ portfolio includes multimedia agency Kandi Koated Entertainment, adult toy and lifestyle brand Bedroom Kandi, cosmetics brand Kandi Koated Beauty, restaurants Old Lady Gang & Blaze Steak & Seafood, unisex children’s, and luxury women’s apparel boutiques TAGS. She is a mogul who has displayed a keen instinct for launching profitable endeavors that embody her core values of family and female empowerment. Though she is well-known in the entertainment industry - she has starred in 14 seasons of Bravo’s cultural juggernaut The Real Housewives of Atlanta and is music royalty thanks to a nearly three-decade career as a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, and producer - Burruss is also a formidable force in business. At the time, Burruss’ all-female R&B group Xscape, which she co-founded at age 14, had a platinum-selling debut album under its belt, but “my mom always felt like the group was going to fall apart,” Burruss says with a chuckle, “so she encouraged me to diversify.”īurruss took her mother’s advice seriously. “My mom said, ‘Don’t put all your eggs in one basket,’” the Atlanta-born and bred singer, songwriter, entrepreneur, and TV personality says today. When Kandi Burruss was a teenager, her no-nonsense single mom gave her an important piece of advice that would shape Kandi’s approach to her career.
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