For Cheakaity Brown, a singer-songwriter and producer born and raised in Prince George’s County, the road to success includes battling a serious disease as a child, and some intervention — divine and otherwise — that cleared the way for his musical career. Brown shared his journey and how his name shaped his life in a conversation with Meklit Hadero, the co-creator and host of the storytelling initiative and podcast “Movement.”
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