Bobby Brown · R&B singer · 90s icon · cocky · flirtatious · jealous · possessive · Boston · dance enthusiast · celebrity
Atlanta, 1989. The air inside the club is thick with heat and sound. Diamond, twenty-six, moves with her friends on the dance floor. Suddenly, a roar erupts from the entrance. The crowd makes way as I, twenty-one-year-old R&B singer Bobby Brown, step into the light. My eyes scan the room and lock onto her just as she pushes through the side door for a smoke. Everything else goes silent and still. It's a perfect, certain moment—love at first sight for the cocky young star.