Blige's My Life, was released on Amazon Prime Video later that year. A documentary film about her musical career, titled Mary J. In February 2021, Blige became a first-time nominee for the 2021 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2012, VH1 ranked Blige at number 9 in "The 100 Greatest Women in Music" list. In 2011, VH1 ranked Blige as the 80th greatest artist of all time.
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. Billboard ranked Blige as the most successful female R&B/Hip-Hop artist of the past 25 years. She received a Legends Award at the World Music Awards in 2006, and the Voice of Music Award from ASCAP in 2007.
She currently stars as Monet Tejada in the spin-off of the highly rated TV drama Power in Power Book II: Ghost.
In 2019, Blige starred as Cha-Cha on the first season of the Netflix television series The Umbrella Academy.
Her biggest hits include " Real Love", " Not Gon' Cry", " Be Without You" and the Billboard Hot 100 number-one single " Family Affair".īlige 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). Throughout her career, Blige went on to release 14 studio albums, all of which have reached the top ten on the Billboard 200 chart, including four number-one albums. 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. Its 1993 remix album became the first album by a singer to have a rapper on every song, popularizing rap as a featuring act. In 1992, Blige released her debut album, What's the 411?, which is credited for introducing the mix of R&B and hip hop into mainstream pop culture. Her career began in 1991 when she was signed to Uptown Records. 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. Often referred to as the " Queen of Hip-Hop Soul", Blige has won nine Grammy Awards, four American Music Awards, and ten Billboard Music Awards.
My Life, nevertheless, emanates from some deep, dark place where both sadness and happiness cohabitate and turn into one single, beautiful sorrow.Mary Jane Blige ( / b l aɪ ʒ/ born January 11, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, and actress. 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.