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- Mary J. Blige
Mary J. Blige
Often referred to as the "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul" and
"Queen of RB", Mary J. Blige celebrity net worth has won
nine Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, four American Music
Awards, twelve NAACP Image Awards, and twelve Billboard Music Awards,
including the Billboard Icon Award. She has been nominated for three
Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards, including one for her
supporting role in the film Mudbound (2017) and another for its
original song "Mighty River", becoming the first person
nominated for acting and songwriting in the same year.
Her career began in 1988 when she was signed to Uptown Records
by its founder Andre Harrell. Blige then began background vocal work
for other artists on the label such as Father MC and Jeff Redd. In
1992, Blige released her debut album, What's the 411?, which is
credited for introducing the mix of RB and hip hop into mainstream pop
culture. Its 1993 remix album became the first album by a singer to
have a rapper on every song, popularizing rap as a featuring act. Both
What's the 411? and her 1994 album My Life are featured on the Rolling
Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, and the latter on Time
magazine's All-Time 100 Albums. Throughout her career, Blige went on
to release 14 studio albums, including four Billboard 200 number-one
albums. Her biggest hits include "Real Love", "Not Gon'
Cry", "Be Without You" and the Billboard Hot 100
number-one single "Family Affair".
Blige has also made a successful transition to both the
television and movie screens, with supporting roles in films such as
Prison Song (2001), Rock of Ages (2012), Betty and Coretta (2013),
Black Nativity (2013), her Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated
breakthrough performance as Florence Jackson in Mudbound (2017),
Trolls World Tour (2020), Body Cam (2020), The Violent Heart (2021)
and co-starring as jazz singer Dinah Washington in the Aretha Franklin
biopic Respect (2021). In 2019, Blige starred as Cha-Cha on the first
season of the Netflix television series The Umbrella Academy. She
currently stars as Monet Tejada in the spin-off of the highly-rated TV
show drama Power in Power Book II: Ghost.
She received a Legends Award at the World Music Awards in 2006,
and the Voice of Music Award from ASCAP in 2007. Billboard ranked
Blige as the most successful female RB/Hip-Hop artist of the past 25
years. In 2017, Billboard magazine named her 2006 song "Be
Without You" as the most successful RB/Hip-Hop song of all time,
as it spent an unparalleled 15 weeks atop the Hot RB/Hip-Hop Songs
chart and over 75 weeks on the chart. In 2011, VH1 ranked Blige as the
80th greatest artist of all time. In 2012, VH1 ranked Blige at number
9 in "The 100 Greatest Women in Music" list. Blige became a
first-time nominee for the 2021 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame. In 2022, Blige was awarded with the Icon Award at the Billboard
Music Awards.
African American scholars have noted the implications of
Blige's presentation and representation of black womanhood and
femininity in the typically male-dominated and centric sphere of hip
hop. Blending the vocal techniques of rapping in hip hop with
aspirational messages in RB, Blige is credited with articulating black
women's experiences in a "more factual and objective" manner
than typical stereotypes and tropes of black women in the media. Using
her personal experiences and struggles with her family as source
material for her songs, Blige refutes notions of black female
hypersexuality by "imploring women to love and empower themselves
through both autonomy and intimacy." This desire for love does
more than connect to her audience members. With particular attention
on her single "Real Love", critics note how the song is
"a performative text, declaratively demanding recognition of
Blige's full humanity and, more broadly, that of hip-hop-generation women."