Recording sessions for the album began in fall of 1993 and ended almost one year later. Blige, Released by Uptown/MCA Records on November 29, 1994. My Life is the second studio album from American R&B and soul singer Mary J. She was also praised for combining hip hop and soul music, subsequently earning her the title "Queen of Hip Hop Soul". It received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who noted Blige's strong, soulful voice. The album was certified three times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). What's the 411? peaked at number six on the Billboard 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The album spawned six singles, including "You Remind Me" and "Real Love". Upon being signed to Uptown Records, she began working with record producer Puff Daddy. What's the 411? is the debut album by American recording artist Mary J. As of 2010, Blige has sold over 50 million albums and 15 million singles worldwide What's the 411? gave Blige her first Billboard 200 top ten album, which has continued since the release of her debut album until her latest album, Stronger with Each Tear (2009), which became Blige's seventh consecutive album to debut at number one or number two on the Billboard 200. She was ranked number 100 in the list of 100 greatest singers of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.īlige started her musical career in 1992, releasing her multi-platinum US selling debut album, What's the 411? on MCA Records and Uptown. Blige has received the World Music Legends Award for combining hip hop and soul in the early 1990s. She is the only artist with Grammy Award wins in Pop, Rap, Gospel, and R&B. A recipient of nine Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards, Blige has recorded eight multi-platinum albums. Mary Jane Blige (born January 11, 1971) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer and actress.
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My Life, nevertheless, emanates from some deep, dark place where both sadness and happiness cohabitate and turn into one single, beautiful sorrow. Blige's strain is sleekly modern and urban, and the grit in it comes from being streetwise and thoroughly realistic about the travails of life. Blige took a huge leap in artistry by penning almost everything herself (the major exception being Norman Whitfield's "I'm Going Down") in collaboration with co-producers Combs and multi-instrumentalist Chucky Thompson, and everything seems to leap directly from her gut. My Life is, from beginning to end, a brilliant, wistful individual plea of desire. The hip-hop part of the combination takes a few steps into the background, allowing Blige's tortured soul to carry the album completely, and it does so with heartwrenching authority.
But it is some of the finest modern soul of the '90s, backing away to a certain extent from the hip-hop/soul consolidation that Blige introduced on her debut album. This certainly isn't your parents' (or grandparents') soul. The melodic sources this time around, though, are so expertly incorporated into the music that they never seem to be intrusions, instead playing like inspired dialogues with soulsters from the past, connecting past legacies with a new one. The production is not exactly original, and there is evidence here of him borrowing wholesale from other songs. Perhaps the single finest moment in Sean "Puffy" Combs' musical career has been the production on this, Mary J.
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