In July 2021, Normani released the single " Wild Side", featuring Cardi B. In August 2019, she released her first solo single, " Motivation" to critical acclaim. Her duet with Sam Smith " Dancing with a Stranger" (2019), reached the top ten in 22 countries, and earned her a nomination for Song Of The Year at the Brit Awards. That same year, she released the single " Waves" featuring 6lack, winning a MTV Video Music Award for Best R&B Video. It is tied as the longest charting song by a female artist on the Mainstream Top 40 chart.įollowing Fifth Harmony's indefinite hiatus, Normani released a two-song EP with Calvin Harris, Normani x Calvin Harris (2018). It reached the top ten in the US and was certified 5× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). While in Fifth Harmony, she competed in Dancing with the Stars (2017) and released her debut solo single " Love Lies" (2018), a duet with Khalid. She rose to fame as a member of the American girl group Fifth Harmony, which became one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. Pick up the November issue of ESSENCE for more on Normani’s story.Normani Kordei Hamilton ( / n ɔː r ˈ m ɑː n i/ nor- MAH-nee born May 31, 1996) is an American singer, dancer, and songwriter. Normani Kordei Hamilton normanikordei) is the diversity ambassador of The Cybersmile Foundation, an anti-cyberbullying organization. All I need to do is love myself despite the hate I get, and not allow others’ hatred toward me to change the way I feel and view the world, and what I have to offer. This experience just shows me that you can’t really change what people think or what the perception may be. If I like a picture, I will post it-that’s it. I’m back on Snapchat too, and for Instagram I’ve deactivated the comments section. I logged back on to Twitter on September 13. I was being judged solely off the way I look. Some take my darker complexion as a negative. I was hurting because these people were judging me based on things they didn’t know about me. It’s hard for my family-we’re very close-to hold their tongue, because they care and want to defend me, but you can’t respond.Īs the only Black girl in the group, I wasn’t sure my groupmates understood how it felt to be in my position. I tried blocking people and even reported some to Twitter, but by then my family was being targeted, too. Threats were made against my life, and although our group has security, I was scared. There were even posted images of me being lynched and whipped. I was compared to a monkey and called the N-word. Many of the tweets I received were filled with racial hatred. My first reaction was, Are you kidding? But the negative comments just kept coming. It seemed that my description of Camila wasn’t good enough for some of our fans. I didn’t think much of it, but over the next few days everything escalated. Hours later I noticed a few negative comments on my Twitter feed. When I got to Camila, I hesitated a little bit because So I described Ally, Lauren and Dinah first. At one point I was asked to “describe each girl in the group with one word.” Of course, I elaborated because one word didn’t seem like enough. While we were there, I did a solo interview with Galore. Last summer I was on tour with my Fifth Harmony groupmates, and we had a stop in New York City. What others say about you is a reflection of them, NOT you.” In her silence she found massive support from celebs such as Zendaya, who reminded her fans how common it is for a “Black woman in this industry” to experience this “type of racially charged hate,” and Keke Palmer, who Instagrammed, “You are such a beautiful girl, Normani. Subscribe to our daily newsletter for the latest in hair, beauty, style and celebrity news. The hate flooded her social media channels, and like comedian Leslie Jones, who was also cyberbullied last summer, Kordei took a self-imposed break from Twitter. Last August, African-American member Normani Kordei Hamilton (who goes by Normani Kordei) was at the center of racist attacks from trolls who felt she had slighted one of the other singers in the group. VIctor Hugo/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images
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