"I'm not doing it for the aesthetic," Brown, 20, told Vanity Fair in an interview published on Wednesday, February 12. "I'm doing it because I love it." Brown explained in the profile that she ...

As a progenitor of funk music, Brown with his band created a stripped-down, rhythmically driven aesthetic that has influenced world music from reggae to Afrobeat. Much of popular music since the 1960s ...