Mary J. Blige Biography

Mary Jane Blige started her career as a backing singer on Uptown Records in 1989. A recipient of nine Grammy Awards in addition to receiving a record of thirty Grammy nominations and also known as the Queen of Hip Hop Soul Blige is one of few entertainers in history to have eight or more albums to reach multi-platinum status. My Life has been placed on greatest albums lists by Rolling Stone Time and Vibe. For her part in combining hip hop and soul in the early 1990s and its subsequent commercial success Blige received the Legends Award at the World Music Awards. Blige made Time magazine's Time 100 list of influential individuals around the world in 2007. As of 2013 Blige has sold more than 75 million records worldwide. Billboard ranked Blige as the most successful female R&B artist of the past 25 years. In 2017 The magazine also lists her 2006 song Be Without You as the most successful R&B song of all time as it spent an unparalleled 15 weeks atop the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and over 75 weeks on the chart. In 2011 VH1 ranked Blige as the 80th greatest artist of all time. Moreover she is ranked number 100 on the list of 100 greatest singers of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. In 2012 VH1 ranked Blige at number 9 in The 100 Greatest Women in Music.

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