Brandi Wells was an American

United States

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 R&B

Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

 singer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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Born Marguerite J. Pinder in Philadelphia, Wells sang with Fat Larry's Band

Fat Larry's Band

Fat Larry's Band was an American R&B/funk band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who enjoyed some commercial success in the early 1980s.-Career:...

, Breeze, and Slick before starting a solo career. Her debut album, Watch Out, appeared in 1981 on Fantasy Records

Fantasy Records

Fantasy Records is a United States-based record label that was founded by Max and Sol Weiss in 1949 in San Francisco, California. They had previously operated a record-pressing plant called Circle Record Company before forming the Fantasy label...

 and reached #37 on the US

United States

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 Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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R&B chart

Record chart

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. The title track charted at #27 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...

 chart and #16 on the US Hot Dance Club Songs chart. It also peaked at #74 in the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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 in February 1982. "Watch Out" proved to be her only hit, though she released a follow-up LP in 1985.

Brandi Wells died in Chester, Pennsylvania

Chester, Pennsylvania

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, in March 2003 of breast cancer

Breast cancer

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, at the age of 47.

Discography

• Watch Out (Fantasy Records
  Fantasy Records
  Fantasy Records is a United States-based record label that was founded by Max and Sol Weiss in 1949 in San Francisco, California. They had previously operated a record-pressing plant called Circle Record Company before forming the Fantasy label...
  
  , 1981)
• 21st Century Fox (Omni Records, 1985)