Ĭombs called recording engineer Prince Charles Alexander out of the blue after Jodeci went to record Diary of a Mad Band. Blige loved the one song Thompson produced for her, which made Combs change the direction of the album. He ended up being a last minute replacement as the producers Blige worked with previously on What's the 411? demanded more money when the album was certified triple platinum. Producer Chucky Thompson was brought in and had originally been contracted to produce one song and an interlude for the project. įollowing the success of her debut album, What's the 411?, and a remixed version in 1993, Blige went into the recording studio in the winter of 1993 to record her second album, My Life. In 1996, following the album's success, MCA issued a remix EP entitled My Life Remix Album which featured artists such as LL Cool J and Lauryn Hill.Ī special commemorative edition of the album was released on November 20, 2020. It also won the 1995 Billboard Music Award for Top R&B Album. In 1996, the album was nominated for Best R&B Album at the 38th Grammy Awards, while in December of the same year, the album was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, for shipments of three million copies in the United States. Blige's second album to reach the top ten on the Billboard 200 chart, peaking at number seven, and debuting at number one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, where it stayed for eight weeks. Similar to her debut album, My Life features vast production from Sean 'Puffy' Combs for his newly founded label, Bad Boy Entertainment, which was at the time backed by Arista Records.Ĭonsidered to be her breakthrough album, My Life became Mary J. Unlike her debut, What's the 411? (1992), Blige contributed lyrics to fourteen of the album's tracks, making it her most introspective and personal album at the time. Many of the topics on My Life deal with clinical depression, Blige's battling with both drugs and alcohol, as well as being in an abusive relationship.

Blige, released on November 29, 1994, by Uptown Records and MCA Records. ln 2012, VH1 ranked Blige at number 9 in 'The 100 Greatest Women in Music' list.My Life is the second studio album by American R&B recording artist Mary J. 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. She received a Legends Award at the World Music Awards in 2006, and the Voice of Music Award from ASCAP in 2007.Billboard ranked Blige as the most successful female R&B/Hip-Hop artist of the past 25 years.

Her 1994 album My Life is among Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and Time magazine's All-Time 100 Albums. In 1992, Blige released her first album, What's the 411?. Blige has won nine Grammy Awards, four American Music Awards, twelve Billboard Music Awards and has also received three Golden Globe Award nominations, including one for her supporting role in the film Mudbound (2017) and another for its second original song 'Mighty River' for Mudbound she also received a nomination for the Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song, becoming the first person nominated for acting and songwriting in the same year. Furthermore, she went on to release 13 studio albums, eight of which have achieved multi-platinum worldwide sales. Her career began in 1991 when she signed to Uptown Records. Mary Jane Blige ( born January 11, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and philanthropist.

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