Mary J. Blige

Known for ActingBorn 1971-01-11 (age 55)Yonkers, New York, USA

Mary Jane Blige (/blaɪʒ/; born January 11, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and philanthropist. She started her career as a backing singer on Uptown Records in 1989. She has released 13 studio albums, eight of which have achieved multi-platinum worldwide sales. Blige has sold over 80 million records, has won nine Grammy Awards, four American Music Awards, twelve Billboard Music Awards and has also received three Golden Globe Award nominations, including one for her supporting role in the film Mudbound (2017) and another for its second original song "Mighty River" for Mudbound; she also received a nomination for the Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song, becoming the first person nominated for acting and songwriting in the same year. In 1992, Blige released her first album, What's the 411?. Her 1994 album My Life is among Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time,[4] and Time magazine's All-Time 100 Albums. She received a Legends Award at the World Music Awards in 2006, and the Voice of Music Award from ASCAP in 2007. As of 2018, Blige has sold 80 million records worldwide. Billboard ranked Blige as the most successful female R&B/Hip-Hop artist of the past 25 years. In 2017, Billboard magazine named her 2006 song "Be Without You" as the most successful R&B/Hip-Hop 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. ln 2012, VH1 ranked Blige at number 9 in "The 100 Greatest Women in Music" list.Read more

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Mary J. Blige's Family Affair

The Crew Has It

DMX: Angel

Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade

VH1 Storytellers

People's Choice Awards

In Vogue: The 90s

Thriller 40

Strength of a Woman

The Umbrella Academy

Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Power Book II: Ghost

Real Love

Elton John: One Night Only, The Greatest Hits

Eric Clapton & Friends in Concert

The Help

Carole King and her Songs at the BBC

Hidden Figures

The Grammys

The Box

Ghost Whisperer

Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music

Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me

Michael Jackson: The One

Lost Ollie

VH1 Divas Live: The One and Only Aretha Franklin

Be Happy

How to Get Away with Murder

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Michael Jackson: Number Ones

Out All Night

All That

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MTV Video Music Awards

Sting: Inside - The Songs of Sacred Love

Quincy

Mudbound

30 Rock

In Living Color

Genius. A Night for Ray Charles

Sean Combs: The Reckoning

2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Strong Medicine

Entourage

Trolls World Tour

Yo! MTV Raps

George Michael: Freedom