I'm so tired that I read this title as "Dad skinned female superstar". Time for me to go to bed. Night

Not all of y'all forgetting about my girl Fantasia



In the UK they have Jamelia, Keisha from Sugababes, and Estelle.

Whitney Houston is brown-skinned. dark is Lupita, Grace Jones, Alek Wek, India Arie, Nina Simone, Naturi Naughton (3LW), etc. brown-skinned is Whitney, Kelly Rowland, Brandy, Tika Sumpter, Jennifer Hudson, (Insert most 90s R&B artist/groups here). then there's people with a caramel complexion like Chilli from TLC, Amerie, Sanaa Lathan, Nicki Minaj, etc. then there's light-skinned: Rihanna, Beyonce, Keri Hilson, Tinashe, Leona Lewis, John Legend, Chris Brown, etc.

I mean, they're all black but there's a wide array of colors that fall under the black race.

They are not dark skinned dummy.

I said Lauryn could have, it she continued momentum. And her unglamorous look was key to her success. And her solo debut was successful as hell. . She went multi platinum and sold over 10 million copies worldwide not to mention the slew after slew of awards including all those grammys. I remember living in Europe during the hype of her success and hearing her music a lot. She still tours there with that one album until this day. Don't knock her just because it was RnB.

Miseducation was just about as rnb crossover as Dangerously in Love and Bday and those are Beyonce's big sellers.

Also in a seperate post. To people of non african descent especially in Asia and Europe people like Janet and Whitney are considered dark to their culture. To them black is black.

Reading this thread makes me cringe at word skinned now. nn