![]() The album was overseen by Combs, even though he had left Uptown to start his own label. ![]() In 1994, Mary J Blige released her second album My Life. The album was successful enough to go triple platinum, showing Uptown they had a star on their hands. The second single, 'Real Love' had similar success and even managed to reach #7 on the Hot 100. The album was released the same year and was titled What's The 411? It's first single 'You Remind Me' reached #1 on the R&B charts. Mary's first assignment came in 1991 when she sang the hook on 'I'll Do 4 U' a track by label mate Father MC.įinally, Uptown gave her the go in 1992 and Mary worked with the young Sean 'Puffy' Combs. Yet the early days on the label were uneventful for Mary as the label focused on its more established acts like Guy and Heavy D & the Boyz. Blige was the youngest and first female artist on the label. ![]() The tape reached the president of the label, Andre Harrell, who met with Mary and signed hre to the label in 1989. Her mother's boyfriend played the cassette for a friend of his in the music industry, Jeff Redd, who worked at Uptown Records. However, Mary's love of music never died and in 1988, she recorded a cover of Anita Baker's 'Caught Up In The Rapture' at a recording booth in the mall. In her teenage years, trouble arose as she began experimenting with drugs and dropped out of high school. ![]() At seven, Mary won a talent show for singing Aretha Franklin's 'Respect' and music quickly became her refuge. The family moved to Yonkers a few years later and lived in one of the most dangerous sections of the city. Mary's father left her family when she was only four years old, leaving her, her sister and their mother to fend for themselves. Mary J Blige was born in 1971 in the Bronx, New York. ![]()
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