“I’m boasting and bragging and loving on myself because I’ve earned it," the Queen of R&B shared on 'TODAY with Hoda & Jenna' Sadie Bell was a digital news writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She ...

In the early 1990s, a young Mary from Yonkers, New York, would emerge as the voice of a generation, blending raw emotion with soulful melodies to create a sound that would define contemporary R&B.