Brandy is preparing to release her first album since her Grammy-nominated 2004 showing is her first Afrodisiac. Human is due November 11th via Epic Records. The single mom says she’s excited to working with producer Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins again. “Darkchild” produced much of Brandy’s 1998 LP, Never Say Never.

“‘Human’ is my most personal album to date,” Brandy says. “I have grown so much since my last album. Being able to express myself and my journey through my music is a feeling I can’t describe. With this new chapter of my life it feels good to have Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, a familiar face, by my side again. He brings out emotions in me like nobody else.”

Darkchild says: “It feels good to be back in the lab with Brandy again. We’ve always made great records and I’m humbled and honored to be continuing our legacy…The album’s title is a real life mirror of Brandy as a woman, an artist, a musician and a performer, communicating what it means to be fully ‘Human’: strong yet vulnerable, candid and triumphant, in love with life and in touch with the things of the spirit.”