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November 15, 2007

Future of Music: Mary J. Blige
January 25, 2007

Q&A: Mary J. Blige

The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul on overcoming her dark past, break dancing and the greatest singer ever
March 10, 2006

The Continuing Drama of Mary J. Blige

Riding high with a Number One album what's won over U2 fans, she says the days of drink, drugs and despair are behind her. But she'll still flip over a table when she's pissed
August 13, 2003

Q&A: Mary J. Blige Rules

From Aretha to Alanis - if it deals with real life, the queen of hip-hop soul approves

Growing Pains

There's no denying the commercial legs or fan appeal of Mary J. Blige's late-2005 The Breakthrough. In the wake of 2003's Diddy dud Love & Life and the teeth of an industrywide slump, its triple-platinum domestic sales — not to mention the sixteen-month stay of "Be Without You" on the R&B...

2007 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

The Breakthrough

2005

Barbershop 2: Back In Business

2004

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Biography

In 1992 Mary J. Blige became a top pop diva by appealing to older fans with her soul sensibility and maintaining youthful credibility with her hip-hop savvy. Blige was born in the Bronx but spent her early years in Savannah, Georgia, where she sang in a Pentecostal church. Her family moved to suburban Yonkers, New York, where Blige continued to sing. Her first demo (recorded at a karaoke studio in...

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