Mary J. Blige

Mary Jane Blige is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur. Often referred to by the honorifics "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul" and "Queen of R&B", her accolades include nine Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, four American Music Awards, twelve NAACP Image Awards, and twelve Billboard Music Awards, including the Billboard Icon Award. Blige signed to Uptown Records in 1988. Her debut album, What's the 411?, is credited for introducing the mix of R&B and hip hop into mainstream pop culture. Its 1993 remix album became the first album by a singer to have a rapper on every song, popularizing rap as a featuring act. Both What's the 411? and her 1994 album My Life ranked among Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. Throughout her career, Blige has released 15 studio albums, four of which―Share My World, Love & Live, The Breakthrough and Growing Pains ―have topped the Billboard 200 chart. Her biggest hits include "Real Love", "You Remind Me", "I'm Goin' Down", "Not Gon' Cry", "Everything", "No More Drama", "Be Without You", "One", "Just Fine" and the Billboard Hot 100 number-one single "Family Affair". Blige enhanced her popularity with an acting career. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_J....) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)