JAZMINE SULLIVAN

She bounced back from heartbreak with 2021’s most bluntly honest R&B songs

Toward the end of 2019, Jazmine Sullivan got some heartbreaking news: Her mother, Pam, a former background singer who once co-managed Jazmine’s music career, had been diagnosed with breast cancer. A few months after that shock, the pandemic shut down live music entirely. It was a lot to handle —