 Millie Jackson live at the Howard Theatre, Washington, D.C., on August 3, 2012. Image by Polyester-queen, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Millie JacksonMillie Jackson Millie Jackson American singer of dance and soul, mother of hip-hop (born 1944) Mildred Virginia Jackson (born July 15, 1944)[4][2] is an American R&B and soul recording artist. Beginning her career in the early 1960s, three of Jackson's albums have been certified gold by the RIAA for over 500,000 copies sold. Jackson's songs often include long spoken sections, sometimes humorous, sometimes sexually explicit. According to the cataloguing site WhoSampled.com, her songs have appeared in 189 samples, 51 covers, and six remixes.[5] Since she always enjoyed writing poems, in the early '70s Jackson began crafting such proto-rap R&B singles as the outspoken "A Child of God (It's Hard to Believe)".[6] This biography of a living person needs additional citations… (Source: Wikipedia)
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