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2024 NAACP Image Awards: Who Is Brooke Payne?

Here are 5 facts you should know about the backbone of New Edition.

Once Michael Bivins, Ricky Bell, and Ron DeVoe joined the group, they were officially the start of the “boy band” concept, crooning and dancing to love songs that felt like pop records. They performed at a local Hollywood Talent Night held at Boston's Strand Theatre by singer/producer Maurice Starr, who scams the young men. Brooke is the unofficial but official 7th member of the group (Johnny Gill was added after Bobby Brown’s departure) and is known as the glue that holds these men together, even after all these years.

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