Getting down with Mary J… was really about just diggin’ in the crates. In 2012, VH1 ranked Blige at number 9 in “The 100 Greatest Woman in Music.”
Moreover, she is ranked number 100 on the list of “100 greatest singers of all time” by Rolling Stone magazine. In 2011, VH1 ranked Blige as the 80th greatest artist of all time. The magazine also lists her 2006 song “Be Without You” as the top R&B song of the 2000s, as it spent an unparalleled 15 weeks atop the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. In other words she has Synesthesia.Īs of 2011, Blige has sold over 50 million albums and 15 million singles worldwide.Billboard Magazine ranked Blige as the most successful female R&B artist of the past 25 years. Blige said that when she hears music, she sees colors. In a documentary by BET television, Mary J. ASCAP official Jeanie Weems stated that “ music has been the voice of inspiration to women worldwide in both struggle and triumph.” That same year, Time included her in its “Time 100” list, a collection of the year’s 100 most influential individuals around the world. In 2007 the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers awarded her its “Voice of Music” Award. For her part in combining hip hop and soul in the early 1990s and its subsequent commercial success, Blige received the World Music Awards “Legends Award”. My Life, in particular, is considered among the greatest albums ever recorded according to Rolling Stone (279/500),Time, and Vibe. Blige’s work has defined the course of R&B/Hip-Hop music. With her tenth album, My Life II… The Journey Continues (Act 1) (2011), she had ten consecutive albums debut in the top 10 on the Billboard 200.
She is the only artist with Grammy Award wins in Pop, Rap, Gospel, and R&B.īlige started her musical career in 1992, releasing her debut album, What’s the 411? on MCA Records and Uptown. She is a recipient of nine Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards, and has recorded eight multi-platinum albums. Mary Jane Blige (born January 11, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and occasional rapper and actress.
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