Mary J. Blige

[RoseMary]

Mary J. Blige - Be Without You & Stay With Me [Live @ Grammys 2007]


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[Emilee]

Mary J. Blige @ 2008 Essence Music Festival 07-06-08


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[TruthIs]

Mary In VEGAS Magazine *Pics*

YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY
From multi-platinum albums to her own recording label and nonprofit organization to empower women, Queen of Hip-Hop Soul Mary J. Blige is living a life beyond her wildest dreams.
Mary J. Blige has a certain distaste for this country's favorite pastime, American Idol. But she won't admit it outright. "I haven't really watched it since Ruben [Studdard] won," the singer tells me after cutting her workout short and grabbing the phone at her New Jersey home for our interview. But whether she likes it or not, she does think the juggernaut show does the contestants a huge disservice. "Honestly, it's not giving most of them a real chance to become an artist for the rest of their lives," she explains. "They are on national TV every night. They have automatic fame. All of the greatest artists had to struggle for their success."
Trials, tribulations and struggle are very familiar to Blige, 37. Raised in the Schlobam projects in Yonkers, New York, she endured what many have come to view as the cliched ghetto-child experience: missing father, struggling single mother and surrounded by violence and despair. Then she wandered into a karaoke-style recording studio in the Galleria mall in White Plains, New York, and recorded Anita Baker's "Rapture." The tape landed in the hands of then Uptown Records president Andre Harrell, who quickly signed her. But she sat in record-label limbo and performed as a back-up and session singer for three years before releasing her breakout album, What's the 411?, in 1992. Fast-forward 16 years, eight albums and 40 million records--with plenty of drugs, alcohol, heartbreak and career ups and downs in between--and Blige now stands at the height of her career.
She decided to clean up her life after R&B singer Aaliyah died in a plane crash in 2001. But it was Blige's rousing post-9/ll performance of her hit "No More Drama" on the globally televised 2002 Grammy Awards that took her from the "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul" (a title given to Blige by her former producer/manager Sean "Diddy" Combs) to mainstream favorite. Bono and Elton John have been singing her praises and performing with her all over the world. Now she is featured in GMC television commercials and posing in the car brand's print ads with her husband/manager...

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[marlasinger]

scanned by me from Allure

 

[aris]

she is gorgeous!

 

[Emilee]

Fashion Rocks backstage
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[Emilee]

Fashion Rocks

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[Emilee]

Mary J.Blige leaving the Waverly Inn, 1-7-2008
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[RoseMary]

Mary J. Blige 2009-05-27 - 37th Annual FiFi Awards in NY (celebcity).

 

[RoseMary]

Mary J. Blige 2009-06-07 - performs Hot 97 Summer Jam at Giants Stadium (celebcity).

 

[RoseMary]

Mary J. Blige leaves a party in New York City - August 5, 2009 (tlfan.to).

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[RoseMary]

Mary J. Blige 2009-12-22 - promotes her latest album 'Stronger With Each Tear' at Best Buy in New York City




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[RoseMary]

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[ForChicSake]

she gets better with age

 

[RoseMary]

Mary J. Blige 2010-01-06 - 36th annual People's Choice Awards




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[RoseMary]

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[ForChicSake]

Essence Black Women in Music: Honoring the Career & Accomplishments of Mary J. Blige




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[ForChicSake]

Pre-GRAMMY Gala presented by The Recording Academy and Clive Davis




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[paczusia]

2011 Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute Gala

The star looks utterly elegant in her Gucci greige column gown with heavy embellishment on the straps and waist. A bronze box clutch and Lorraine Schwartz jewels complete the look.

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[daniellat]

Front page on tFS today: 2011 Billboard Music Awards Red Carpet