Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill (South Orange, 25 of May of 1975) actress, singer and American producer awarded 8 times with the Grammy premium. He was member of The Fugees before beginning a career alone.

Biography

First years and The Fugees

It attended the institute of Columbia in New Jersey. Of girl, it acted once in the Apollo Theater, where it received a great ovación when the finishing.

It began to act of adolescent in series of television like Ace the World Turns and the film Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit.

In the institute it already happened to comprise of The Fugees, but it did not act assiduously with them until it finished in Columbia University.

The first album of The Fugees, Blunted on Reality followed the disc to him The Score, that obtained numerous premiums and numerous sales and that appeared with the song of Roberta Flack', “Killing Me Softly”

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

It was the album debut of Lauryn Hill. Launched the 25 of August of 1998, shaking to the Grammy's premiums, after to be name to 11 Grammy's and to gain 5 of them (including “Album of the Year). The album includes collaborations with the artist of soul D'Angelo (“i used to Love Him”) and with John Legend in the piano in “Everything is Everything”

First the simple one of the album was “Doo Woop (That Thing), song that I gain 2 Grammy's premiums: “Better song R&B” and “Better Feminine Vocal Display of R&B” and arrived at 1# place in the list from “U.S. Billboard Hot 100”.

It was invested in position 37 in the Vh1 list of the best albums of history. Rankeado 312 in the list of “The 500 Better Albums for all time”.

The title makes reference to the book of Carter G. Woodson “The Black My of the” and the cover of the album to “Burnin” of The Wailers.

I exile self-imposed and MTV Unplugged

After 3 years, Hill returned with direct of MTV with look a something different and made more emphasis in the message of its letters. It interpreted almost all songs only with an acoustic guitar and its voice and explained why it had not removed anything in three years. Although many critics did not see it with very good eyes, the album was platinum disc.

Since then she has been quite critical with music industry and what a black young women represented in her. It tries not to make many appearances public, has stopped making interviews, listening to music and watching, and it has been dedicated to explore new artistic manifestations, becoming dramatist and composing a vast quantity of poetic texts, designs of clothes or scripts.

Charitable, activist and controversial

In 1996, it received a Essence Award by his aid to refugees with the Sheltered Project, that supported to a camping in Kenya and Uganda and a concert in Harlem.

In 1999, Hill received three awards NAACP Image Awards and magazine invested it to the Ebony between the 100 Afro-American most influential ones. She is Christian Protestant it jeopardize, in 2003 it was invited to give a action of Christmas in the Vatican in which it was useful to make declarations against the child abuses on the part of the catholic clergy and to declare that it did not believe in any representing Pope as of God in the Earth and this had an huge impact

Return of The Fugees

The 18 of September of 2004, touched in Brooklyn and appeared in the BET' 2005 Music Awards. They have removed new single, “Take It Easy”, spread by Internet and made an European tour at the end of 2005.

In February of 2006, they offered a concert in Hollywood, that also spread by Internet, removing shortly after two new songs “Foxy” and “Wannabe”

Hill is preparing in addition an album at the request of his fans.

Personal life

From 1996 he maintains an affective report with the American football player Rohan Marley (son of Bob Marley), although some publications say that have not been gotten to marry and that it follows married with his first wife. They have four children: Zion, Selah, Joshua and John to those who have dedicated several songs.

She was childhood friend of plaintiff Zach Braff.

Discografía

Albums with The Fugees

• 1994: Blunted on Reality
• 1996: The Score U.S. Certification: 6x Platinum, #1 U.S. (Sales anywhere in the world: 18 million)
• 1996: Refugee Camp - Bootleg Versions
• 2003: Fugees - Greatest Hits

Singles with The Fugees

Albums alone

• 1998: The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill #1 U.S. #2UK 8x Platinum (Sales anywhere in the world: 16 million)
• 2002: MTV Unplugged no. 2,0 #3 U.S. Platinum
• 2007: TBA

Singles alone

Samples of sound

• of Hill, song of Bob Marley: “Redemption Song”

References

1. ↑ What Lauryn Hill told the Vatican
2. ↑ Poynter Online - Tracker Abuses
3. ↑ What Lauryn Hill told the Vatican
4. ↑ The Fugees: Reunited and Not Very Good Tom Breihan, Villagevoice.com, September 26, 2005
5. ↑ “but still it continues maintaining very good sexual reports with the woman head of microfonoo”
6. ↑ MySpace.com - Lauryn Hill-Marley - HIALEAH, FLORIDA - www.myspace.com/laurynhill

External Links

• THE MAIN LAURYN HILL MYSPACE PAGE AND PETITION SITE
• Official site
• Lyrics from Official site
• Lauryn Hill interview with Trace Magazine, July 2005
• Rolling Stone: Lauryn Hill
• Rolling Stone Magazine
• 'Interview with Essence Magazine 2005: They Call Me Ms. Hill'
• International Lauryn Hill message board
• International The Fugees fansite with news on Lauryn Hill
• International The Fugees message board with news on Lauryn Hill