| LC control no. | no 96014488 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | ML420.B649 Biography |
| Personal name heading | Blige, Mary J. |
| Variant(s) | Brook MJB (Mary J. Blige) Brook Lynn |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1971-01-11 |
| Place of birth | Bronx (New York, N.Y.) |
| Affiliation | Uptown Records |
| Profession or occupation | Soul musicians Composers Sound recording executives and producers Rap musicians Actors Rhythm and blues musicians Gospel musicians Singers |
| Found in | Blige, M.J. My life [SR] p1994: label (Mary J. Blige) Guinness enc. of pop. mus., 2nd ed. (Blige, Mary J.; b. Bronx, N.Y.; hip hop and soul singer) New Rolling stone enc. of rock & roll (Blige, Mary J.; b. Mary Jane Blige, 1-11-71, Bronx, N.Y.) Blige, M.J. The breakthrough [SR] p2005: container (Brook) Contactmusic.com, Feb. 27, 2006 (on her album The breakthrough, Blige features a rapper named Brook, which is actually her rapper alter ego; name derived from Brooklyn) Urbanbridgez WWW site, Feb. 27, 2006 (Brook a.k.a. Blige) Reflections, p2006: label (MJB) container (Mary J. Blige) Blige, M.J. My life II--- [SR] p2011: container (Brook Lynn) Wikipedia, Dec. 12, 2011 (under My life II-- the journey continues (act 1): Brook Lynn, Blige's rap alter ego) Wikipedia, June 21, 2013 (Mary B. Blige; born Mary Jane Blige, January 11, 1971, Bronx, N.Y.; American singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional rapper and actress; genres: R&B, soul, gospel, hip hop, hip hop soul) Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed December 18, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Blige, Mary J.; hip hop/ rap artist; born11 January 1971 in Bronx, New York, United States; signed to Uptown Records by record executive Andre Harrell; rose to fame with songs like Not Gon' Cry and Be Happy; viewed as the most influential African American female vocalist and the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul for the past two decades; honors include four Grammy Awards (1995, 2002, 2003, 2006)) |
| Associated language | eng |
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