Betty Shabazz, the widow of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X, in the TV movie Betty & Coretta. Taking on a more dramatic role, in 2013, she appeared as Dr. She appeared in Tyler Perry's dramatic comedy I Can Do Bad All By Myself in 2009, and sang in the musical film Rock of Ages alongside Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand in 2012. In addition to music, Blige has branched out into acting. She has sold over 50 million albums and, as of 2015, has won nine Grammy Awards. That same year, refusing to rest on her laurels, Blige expanded her musical palette geographically with the album The London Sessions, showcasing her time in the United Kingdom and featuring songwriting from Sam Smith, Emeli Sandé and Disclosure. Renowned as the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, Blige is undeniably one of the great singers and artists of her generation. The following year, Blige celebrated the 25th anniversary of her breakthrough debut What's the 411? with a new edition of this classic album and also released the holiday collection A Mary Christmas.Ģ014 saw the songstress handling all of the tracks for the soundtrack to Think Like a Man Too. Wrong," a collaboration with rapper Drake. The Journey Continues, which became a Top 5 hit. She also released the album My Life: Part II. In 2011, Blige contributed a song, "The Living Proof," to the soundtrack of the hit film The Help. Blige continued to put out new albums thereafter, including Growing Pains (2007) and Stronger with Each Tear (2009). In addition to selling more than 7 million copies worldwide, The Breakthrough was nominated for eight Grammy Awards and won three, for best R&B album, best R&B song and best R&B female vocal performance (for the song "Be Without You"). After her 2003 album Love & Life earned only lukewarm reviews, Blige recorded her most popular and acclaimed album to date, The Breakthrough, in 2005. The album features her most popular song to date, "Family Affair," which was one of the most popular songs of the decade and remains a classic of the hip-hop soul genre. In 2001, Blige released an album fittingly titled No More Drama. In 2016, it was reported that the couple has called it quits. You're beautiful, Mary.' He was the first man to ever tell me that." Blige and Isaacs married in 2003, and she became a stepmother to his three children. "He was the first person to ever challenge what I did: 'Why are you drinking? Why do you hate yourself? You don't need to be around people who tear you down. "After I met him, everything changed in my life," she said. Alcohol? Get her that.'" Blige finally managed to turn her life around when she met and fell in love with a music executive named Kendu Isaacs. The people making money off me kept me blind: 'Mary likes cocaine? OK, let's make sure she keeps getting it.
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While her music was adored by fans and critics alike, behind her professional success Blige's personal life continued to spiral out of control. 1 on the Billboard albums chart, and featured hits like "Love Is All We Need" and "Everything." Personal Struggles Her third album, 1997's Share My World, reached No. My Life proved another critical and popular success with singles such as "Be Happy," "Mary Jane (All Night Long)" and "You Bring Me Joy." In 1996, she won her first Grammy Award (best rap performance by a duo or group) for "I'll be There For You/You're All I Need to Get By," a duet with Method Man of the Wu-Tang Clan. Two years later, Blige released a second album, My Life, on which she wrote or co-wrote nearly all of the songs. Alcohol, sex, drugs-I'd do whatever it took to feel a little better." "I ended up becoming my environment," Blige said. I felt the Spirit." However, by the time she turned 16, she had dropped out of school, stopped going to church, and become addicted to drugs and sex. "I felt wanted and special, and when I was 12, I sang the hymn 'Lord, Help Me To Hold Out Until My Change Has Come.' I was praying as I sang it. "I loved being there because I wouldn't be hurt," she said about going to church. They hurt me."īlige found escape from the terrible world of her childhood in church and in music.
She left us with people she thought could be trusted. My mother was a single parent, a working woman.
When I was 5, sexual stuff was done to me. I never saw a woman there who wasn't abused. The projects offered only more horror: "I'd hear women screaming and running down the halls from guys beating up on them. Hoping to escape from her father, Blige and her mother moved to the Schlobohm Houses, a public housing project in Yonkers.
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