Lauryn Hill

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Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
Background information
Birth name	Lauryn Noel Hill
Also known as	Ms. Hill, L Boogie
Born	May 25, 1975 (age 31)
Origin	South Orange, New Jersey
Genre(s)	Hip hop, Alternative hip hop, Soul, neo-soul, R&B, Reggae
Occupation(s)	Vocalist, Rapper, Producer, Arranger
Instrument(s)	Vocals, Guitar, Piano
Years active	1991-present
Label(s)	Columbia, Ruffhouse
Associated acts	The Fugees
Website	http://www.lauryn-hill.com/

Lauryn Noel Hill (born May 25, 1975), is an eight-time Grammy award winning musician, and record producer. She initially established her reputation as the most visible and vocal member of The Fugees, then continued on to a solo career, releasing The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and the MTV Unplugged No. 2.0.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Musical career beginnings: The Fugees 1.3 Marriage and children 2 Musical career 2.1 Blunted On Reality (1994) 2.2 The Score (1996) 2.3 The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998) 2.4 MTV Unplugged No. 2.0 (2002) 2.5 Return of The Fugees (2004) 3 Humanitarianism, activism, controversy 4 Award history 4.1 Other awards nominated and won 5 Current projects 6 Trivia 7 Discography 7.1 Albums with The Fugees 7.2 Singles with The Fugees 7.3 Solo albums 7.4 Solo singles 8 References 9 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Lauryn Hill was born on May 25, 1975 in South Orange, New Jersey. She attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey. She was an active vocal student, cheerleader, and performer. Lauryn Hill began her acting career very early. In 1988, 13-year old Hill appeared as an Amateur Night contestant on It's Showtime at the Apollo. Hill sung her own version of Michael Jackson's song Who's Loving You?. A nervous young Hill she sung far away from the mic, and the audience booed; but Hill persisted and finished her song to applause; however she did not win.

Hill joined the cast of soap opera As The World Turns as Kira Johnson. In December 1993, Hill starred with Whoopi Goldberg in Sister Act 2. In Sister Act 2, Hill became widely recognized as both a capable actress and an extremely talented musician. Hill's gifted voice was demonstrated in her renditions of "His Eye Is on the Sparrow" (a duet withTanya Blout) and "Joyful, Joyful" .

Her other acting work includes the play Club XII with MC Lyte; and the motion pictures King of the Hill (as Arletta the Elevator Operator); Hav Plenty (1997); and Restaurant (1998). She appeared as a singer on the soundtracks for Conspiracy Theory in 1997 (on the track "Can't Take My Eyes Off You") and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood in 2002 (on the track "Selah", a song dedicated to her second child, daughter Selah).

[edit] Musical career beginnings: The Fugees

The Refugee Camp ("Fugees"), formed after Prakazrel "Pras" Michel approached Hill in high school about joining a music group he was creating. Soon after, she met Pras' close friend and fellow Haïtian immigrant, Wyclef Jean. At some point, Lauryn Hill was given the alias "L Boogie," as she began to convert her poetic writing into impressive rap verses. Though the Fugees had formed in 1988, Hill's membership was somewhat disrupted by her acting and her education at Columbia University.

Hill's singing gained worldwide acclaim with the Fugees' remake of "Killing Me Softly with His Song", accompanied by a sample from A Tribe Called Quest's "Bonita Applebum". Since her emergence, Lauryn Hill has made her presence known as one of the few artists in the industry who can both sing and rap skillfully, and being dominant & respected in both styles.

[edit] Marriage and children

Since 1996 Hill has been in a relationship with former University of Miami football linebacker Rohan Marley (son of the late reggae music icon Bob Marley). Though she refers to Marley as her husband, it has not been confirmed publicly that they are legally married. According to a October 2003 Rolling Stone article by Touré, Marley never divorced his first wife, whom he married while a sophomore at the University of Miami. ^[1] However, in the summer of 2005, Trace magazine interviewed Lauryn Hill and Rohan Marley; Marley said none of this was true and that many lies had been written about them ^[2].

Together they have four children: son Zion David Hill-Marley (4 August 1997); daughter Selah Louise Marley (12 November 1998); son Joshua Omaru Marley (January 2002)^[3][4] and son John Marley (summer 2003) ^[5].

She has written songs about her two eldest children Zion and Selah. "To Zion" featured on her first solo effort, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill in 1998. "Selah" featured on the Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood soundtrack in 2002 ^[6].

[edit] Musical career

[edit] Blunted On Reality (1994)

The Fugees' first album, Blunted on Reality, which featured the songs "Boof Baf", "Nappy Heads" and "Vocab", was much-hyped but fell short of expectations. "Nappy Heads" peaked at #49 on the U.S Hot 100. The album sold over 2 million copies worldwide.

[edit] The Score (1996)

Blunted on Reality was followed by The Score, a multi-platinum, Grammy-winning album that established all three Fugees as international rap stars. Singles from The Score include "Ready or Not", "Fu-Gee-La", and "No Woman, No Cry". The album's most well-known song, however, is a cover of Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly", which put the group in hip-hop and pop history. A versatile, urban flavor was also added to covers of Bob Marley and the Delfonics, to create songs that most consider to be hip-hop classics.

[edit] The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)

In 1998, Hill released The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, a commercially successful album that was also one of the more critically acclaimed releases of the 1990s. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill sold over 423,000 copies in its first week and topped the Billboard R&B Album chart for 6 weeks. The first single off the album was "Lost Ones" followed by "Doo Wop (That Thing)", which debuted at number one in the United States in the summer of 1998, along with singles "Ex-factor" and "Everything Is Everything". In 1999's Grammy Awards, Hill was nominated ten times and won Album of the Year (beating Madonna's critically acclaimed album Ray of Light), Best New Artist, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, Best R&B Song, Best R&B Album, setting a new record for women in the industry.

Soon after the album became a global success, Hill and her recording company were sued by Vada Nobles, Rasheem Pugh, Johari Newton and Tejumold Newton, known as New Ark Entertainment, who claimed to have been denied full credit and compensation for their assistance on the album. Initially, Hill fought back and denied what they claimed was creative input. But the matter was settled, and they received an undisclosed amount of money(reported to be $5 million dollars) and were given credit for drum programming and a small amount of lyrical, instrumental and production work.

[edit] MTV Unplugged No. 2.0 (2002)

In July 2001, Lauryn Hill unveiled her highly-anticipated new material on an MTV Unplugged special. Fans had waited three years for Hill's follow-up to the critical and commercial smash hit, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Those fans who were selected as audience members for the MTV filming had high expectations for the former Fugees front woman. What they got was a display by an almost unrecognizable Hill, who had recently cut off her hair and wore plain clothing. The 2002 MTV Unplugged No. 2.0 album exhibited a different side of Hill, as she focused more on the lyrics and the message she was spreading rather than the musical arrangements. "Fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need", she said during the concert. "I’ve just retired from the fantasy part."

Most of the songs featured only an acoustic guitar and her voice, somewhat raspy from rehearsal on the day before the recording. Hill used the set as an opportunity to give information on why she had been absent from the public for a period of time and what she found while away. While some critics praised Hill's passion, brilliance, and honesty, others called the album's songs "unlistenable". Most considered the album either "tragic" or "inspiring". Nonetheless, the album received platinum status.

Despite Hill's intentional departure from the media and celebrity, Hill continued to create commercially and critically successful music. Her song "Mystery of Iniquity" was nominated for a Grammy without promotion or radio airplay and used as an interpolation by hip-hop mega-producer Kanye West for his single "All Falls Down" (eventually recorded by Syleena Johnson). John Legend, who played piano on Everything is Everything, collaborated with Hill on the Grammy-nominated remix of "So High". Talib Kweli (solo emcee and a member of the groups Black Star and Reflection Eternal) dedicated a song entitled "Ms. Hill" to her, rapping reverently that you give us hope, you give us faith, you're the one . Artists and former collaborators such as Common still include Ms. Hill in their album thank you's and dedications.

In the months and years after the release of her debut album, Hill became increasingly disaffected with the music industry. In the February 2006 issue of Essence magazine, Hill describes this time in her life:

For two or three years I was away from all social interaction. It was a very introspective time because I had to confront my fears and master every demonic thought about inferiority, about insecurity or the fear of being Black, young and gifted in this western culture. It took a considerable amount of courage, faith and risk to gain the confidence to be myself. I had to deal with folks who weren’t happy about that. I was a young woman with an evolved mind who was not afraid of her beauty or her sexuality. For some people that’s uncomfortable. They didn’t understand how female and strong work together. Or young and wise. Or Black and divine.

During this time, Hill abandoned celebrity and stopped doing interviews. She stopped watching television and listening to music and explored alternate methods of expressing herself, including creating and writing a considerable amount of music, poetry, screenplays, clothing designs, etc.

Hill said: —People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at that time. There was much more strength, spirit and passion, desire, curiosity, ambition and opinion that was not allowed in a small space designed for consumer mass appeal and dictated by very limited standards. I had to step away when I realized that for the sake of the machine, I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable about having to smile in someone’s face when I really didn’t like them or even know them well enough to like them[7].

and went on to say:

—I had to fight for an identity that doesn’t fit in one of their boxes. I’m a whole woman. And when I can’t be whole, I have a problem. By the end I was like, I’ve got to get out of here[8].

[edit] Return of The Fugees (2004)

In one of the most momentous reunions in hip-hop history, The Fugees performed on September 18,2004 at Dave Chappelle's Block Party in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. They headlined a bill that included a star-studded cast of hip hop celebrities. The concert received many positive reviews, most of which praised Hill's breath-taking, nearly a cappella rendition of "Killing Me Softly". The block party was recorded and directed by Michel Gondry and released on March 3,2006 to movie theaters.

The Fugees also appeared at BET's 2005 Music Awards on June 28, 2005 where they opened the show with a twelve minute set.

On October 6,2005, Lauryn Hill emceed and performed two songs at the Take Back TV concert/ launch of Al Gore's CurrentTV.

A new album is in the works. One track, "Take It Easy", was leaked online and therefore was released as a single on the Internet on September 27, 2005. It peaked at #40 on the Billboard R&B Chart. However, the track was also met with a muted antipathy, and prompted The Village Voice to say, "Turns out that a Fugees reunion wasn't really what anyone was waiting for; we just wanted Lauryn to start rapping again." ^[9]

The Fugees embarked on a European tour from November 30,2005 through December 20, 2005. The group played Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Germany, Belgium, Italy, France, England, Ireland and Switzerland. The tour received excellent fan reviews. Also, the tour proved the Fugees could function again as a unit.

On February 6,2006, the Fugees did a special "Reunion Concert" in Hollywood, California, that was offered as a live webcast on the Verizon Wireless website. The Fugees have been featured in numerous Verizon Wireless VCast advertisements in magazines and TV commercials. A new song titled "Foxy" was made available on VCast. Also recently, a third new song has been leaked, unofficially titled "Wannabe", which uses the same hook as the Michael Jackson song "I Wanna Be Where You Are".

However, in recent interviews Pras has dismissed the leaked songs, stating that they were throwaways that the band recorded while in search of a new vibe.

[edit] Humanitarianism, activism, controversy

Hill is noted as a humanitarian, and in 1996 she received an Essence Award for work which has included the 1996 founding of the Refugee Project, an outreach organization that supports a two-week overnight camp for at-risk youth, and for supporting well-building projects in Kenya and Uganda, as well as for staging a rap concert in Harlem to promote voter registration.

In 1999 Hill received three awards at the 30th Annual NAACP Image Awards. In 1999 Ebony magazine named her one of "100+ Most Influential Black Americans". She was named with Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. and others among the "10 For Tomorrow," in the EBONY 2000: Special Millennium Issue.

On December 13, 2003, Hill shocked officials at a Christmas benefit concert at the Vatican by denouncing "corruption, exploitation, and abuses", in reference to the child molestation of boys by Catholic officials in the United States of America and the cover-up of offenses by Catholic Church officials. Hill told the crowd of 7,000:

—I am sorry if I am about to offend some of you. I did not accept my invitation to celebrate with you the birth of Christ. Instead I ask you why you are not in mourning for him in this place? I want to ask you, what have you got to say about the lives you have broken? What about the families who were expecting God and instead were cheated by the Devil? Who feels sorry for them, the men, women and children damaged psychologically, emotionally and mentally by the sexual perversions and abuse carried out by the people they believed in? Holy God is a witness to the corruption of your leadership, of the exploitation and abuses which are the minimum that can be said for the clergy. There is no acceptable excuse to defend the church.[10] Hill called on the church leaders to "repent" and encouraged the crowd to "not seek blessings from man but from God."

There was silence for several minutes from the audience as many could not speak English. There were cries of "Enough" and "Shame" from those who understood while others whistled and clapped before she picked up her guitar and performed two songs—aptly entitled "Damnable Heresies" and "Social Drugs". After her performance her comments were translated for Cardinal Camillo Ruini, head of the Italian Bishops Conference, who was sitting in the front row—and he walked out in protest. Among those in attendance were Edmund Cardinal Szoka, American-born President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City, and President of the Governorate of Vatican City. The segment was cut from the television broadcast by the Church, and a full transcript of Hill's statement has yet to be released.

The global response Hill received was varied. Monsignor Rino Fisichella, one of the organizers of the traditional concert, said: "It was in poor taste and very bad mannered. It showed a complete lack of respect for her invitation and for the place where she had been invited to perform", while the Catholic League responded by calling Hill "pathologically miserable".^[11] But many bloggers believed what she said was true and praised her courageousness.

Hill's only official response to the church, while returning to New York, was: "What I said was the truth. Is telling the truth bad manners? What I asked was the church to repent for what has happened"^[12].

[edit] Award history

Grammys Career Statistics^[13][14]

• Career wins: 8

• Career nominations: 19

Category	Genre	Song/Album	Year	Result
Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group	R&B	Killing Me Softly	1996	Won
Best Rap Album	Rap	The Score	1996	Won
Album of the Year	Top	The Score	1996	Nominated
Best Female Pop Vocal	Pop	Can't Take My Eyes Off You	1998	Nominated
Best Female Rap Solo Performance	Rap	Lost Ones	1998	Nominated
Best Female R&B Vocal Performance	R&B	Doo Wop (That Thing)	1998	Won
Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group	R&B	Nothing Even Matters feat. D'Angelo	1998	Nominated
Best R&B Song (award goes to songwriter)	R&B	A Rose Is Still A Rose - by Aretha Franklin	1998	Nominated
Best R&B Song (award goes to songwriter)	R&B	Doo Wop (That Thing)	1998	Won
Best R&B Album	R&B	The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill	1998	Won
Best Female Rap Solo Performance	Rap	Lost Ones	1998	Nominated
Best New Artist	Top	N/A	1998	Won
Album of the Year	Top	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill	1998	Won
Album of the Year	Top	Supernatural	2000	Won[15]
Best Music Video (Short Form)	General	Everything Is Everything	2000	Nominated
Best R&B Song (award goes to songwriter)	R&B	All That I Can Say - Mary J. Blige	2000	Nominated
Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals	Pop	Turn Your Lights Down Low, with Bob Marley from The Best Man soundtrack	2001	Nominated
Best Female Rap Solo Performance	Rap	Mystery Of Iniquity	2003	Nominated
Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group	R&B	So High, with John Legend	2005	Nominated

[edit] Other awards nominated and won

As of 2006, Lauryn Hill has won over thirty awards, including eight Grammy Awards and three World best-selling Music Awards. She is first of only four female artists awarded five Grammys in one year, the others being Norah Jones, Alicia Keys and Beyoncé Knowles.

1999 Award wins

American Music Award

• Favorite Soul/R&B New Artist

Blockbuster Award

• Favorite New Artist - Female

MTV Video Music Awards

• Video of the Year
• Best Female Video,
• Best R&B Video, and
• Best Art Direction (Gideon Ponte) - Doo Wop (That Thing)

Soul Train Lady of Soul

• R&B/Soul Album of the Year
• Best R&B/Soul Single, Solo (Ex-Factor)
• Best R&B/Soul or Rap Music Video (Doo Wop (That Thing))

WB Radio Music Award

• Artist of the Year (Rhythm/Urban)

NAACP Image Awards

• Best Album
• Best New Artist
• Outstanding Female Artist
• President's Award for the Refugee Project

Soul Train Music Awards

• Best Female R&B/Soul Album
• Best Music Video ("Doo Wop (That Thing)")
• Best R&B/Soul or Rap Album
• Sammy Davis, Jr. Entertainer of the Year Award

1999 award nominations

MTV Video Music Awards

• Best Hip-Hop Video

Soul Train Lady of Soul

• Best R&B/Soul Album

VH1 Fashion Awards

• Most Fashionable Artist (Female)
• Visionary Video Award

MTV Europe Music Awards

• Best Female Artist
• Best Album
• Best R&B Artist

Soul Train Music Awards

• Best R&B/Soul Single, Female

2000 Award Wins

American Music Award

• Favorite Female Soul/R&B Artist
• Favorite R&B Album

Soul Train Music Awards

• Best R&B/Soul Single, Female (Ex-Factor)

World Music Awards

• World's Best-Selling Female R&B Artist
• World's Best-Selling Female Rap Artist
• World's Best-Selling New Artist

2000 Award nominations

Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards

• Best R&B/Soul Single - Solo (Everything Is Everything)

MTV Video Music Awards

• Best Hip-Hop Video - Everything Is Everything
• Best Direction (Sanji) - Everything Is Everything
• Best Special Effects (Method) - Everything Is Everything^[16]

[edit] Current projects

• Hill is reportedly working on her own album, with some reports of a great quantity and great quality of music. The Wailers are reported to be on the album.

• John Legend has worked twice with Hill. He played the piano on the song "Everything Is Everything" from Hill's first album. Hill then guested on the remix of his song So High which was nominated for a Grammy.

• Hill was reportedly wrapping up a project entitled "Khulami Phase" over 2 years ago but nothing is official.

• Ms. Hill has supposedly completed work on her second studio album. However, online-chat claimed that Columbia, her record label, is refusing to release it. A petition is currently being circulated online by fans, hoping to persuade Columbia to release the album, which Columbia deems not "radio friendly" and fears would not be the same as the commercially successful "The Miseducation". Insiders who claim to have listened to the new album say it is "brilliant", "genius", and a "masterpiece"^{[citation needed]}.

• On Auust 13,2006, the Los Angeles Times reported that Hill has been leasing space in a 1920s Los Angeles warehouse that has been turned into live-work lofts. ^[17] It has also been reported Hill has a home in a hotel suite in Florida along with a studio.

• Hill recently came out of seclusion to record a verse for a song called "Music" on Joss Stone's new CD ^[18]. Joss was so insistent in her desire to work with Hill that she called Hill's mother every day until she could get Hill to work with her. Stone states about Hill: "And Lauryn, I've wanted to work with her since the first time I heard her voice. It's a dream come true for me — a goal I can mark off my list. I love her so much, and she's just so talented. She's just a poet." ^[19].

[edit] Trivia

• Lauryn attended Columbia High School, went to Columbia University, and signed to Columbia records.
• Lauryn Hill sang at the world renowned Apollo Theater at age 13 during amateur night (singing Smokey Robinson's "Who's Loving You").
• Hill is friends with actor Zach Braff, who graduated from Columbia High School in 1993, the same year as Hill. Braff mentions being great childhood friends with Hill, who went to his bar Mitzvah in 1988.^[20].
• Lauryn worked with Aretha Franklin on her LP, 'A Rose Is Still A Rose'.
• Lauryn wrote, produced and sang background vocals for Mary J. Blige's hit "All That I Can Say".
• In 1999 MTV: 100 Greatest Videos Ever Made includes "Everything Is Everything" at # 52.
• In 2001 VH1: 100 Greatest Albums includes The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill at # 37.
• In 2001 VH1: 100 Greatest Videos includes: # 74 - Doo Wop (That Thing).
• In 2002 Lauryn ranked # 22 on VH1: 100 Sexiest Artists.
• In 2002 Rolling Stone: 50 Essential 'Woman In Rock' Albums includes The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill at # 32.
• In 2003 VH1: 50 Greatest Hip Hop Artists includes Lauryn at # 17.
• In 2003 Rolling Stone: The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: # 312: The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill.
• In 2004 #311 on the Top Pop Artists of the Past 25 Years chart^[21]

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums with The Fugees

Year	Title	Chart positions			WW Sales
		Billboard 200	Top R&B/ Hip-Hop	UK Albums
1994	Blunted on Reality	—	#62	#122	2 million
1996	The Score	#1	#1	#2	18 million
1996	Refugee Camp - Bootleg Versions	#127	#50	#55
2003	Fugees - Greatest Hits	—	—	—
2007	Reconciliation;New Heavy;(both are tentative album titles)	TBA	TBA	TBA

[edit] Singles with The Fugees

Year	Title	Chart positions			Album
		US Hot 100	US R&B/Hip-Hop	UK Singles Chart
1994	"Boof Baf"	—	—	—	Blunted on Reality
1994	"Nappy Heads"	#49	#12	#172	Blunted on Reality
1994	"Vocab"	—	#91	—	Blunted on Reality
1995	"Fu-Gee-La"	#29	#13	#21	The Score
1996	"Killing Me Softly"	#2	—	#1	The Score
1996	"Ready or Not"	#69	—	#1	The Score
1996	"No Woman, No Cry" (with Stephen Marley)	#38	—	#2	The Score
1997	"Hip-Hopera" (with Bounty Killer)	#81	—	—	My Xperience
1997	"Rumble in the Jungle" (feat. A Tribe Called Quest, Busta Rhymes & John Forté)	—	—	#3	When We Were Kings Original Soundtrack
2005	"Take It Easy"	—	#40	—	Reconciliation;New Heavy;(both are tentative album titles)

[edit] Solo albums

Album cover	Album information
	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Released: August 25 1998 Chart Positions: #1 U.S., #2 UK 8x Platinum WW Sales: 18 million
	MTV Unplugged No. 2.0 Released: May 7 2002 Chart Positions: #2 U.S. Platinum
Call Me Ms. Hill Released:TBA Chart Positions:

[edit] Solo singles

Year	Title	Chart Positions				Album
		US Hot 100	US R&B/Hip-Hop	US Rap	UK Singles Chart
1997	"The Sweetest Thing"	—	—	—	#18	Love Jones SDTK
1997	"All My Time" (with Paid & Live)	—	—	—	#57	All My Time (Single)
1998	"The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill"	—	—	—	—	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
1998	"Doo Wop (That Thing)"	#1	#2	#1	#3	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
1999	"Ex-Factor"	#21	#7	—	#4	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
1999	"Everything Is Everything"	#35	#14	—	#19	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
1999	"To Zion"	—	#77	—	—	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
1999	"Nothing Even Matters" featuring D'Angelo	—	#25	—	—	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
1999	"Turn Your Lights Down Low" (Bob Marley featuring Lauryn Hill)	—	—	—	#15	Chant Down Babylon
2000	"Can't Take My Eyes Off You"	—	#45	—	—	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
2002	"Selah"	—	—	—	—	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood SDTK
2002	"Mr. Intentional"	—	—	—	—	MTV Unplugged No. 2.0
2005	"So High" (John Legend featuring Lauryn Hill)	—	#53	—	—	Get Lifted
2007	"Music" (Joss Stone featuring Lauryn Hill)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	Introducing Joss Stone

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Jan 2006: Interview with Essence magazine 2005: They Call Me Ms. Hill
• July 2005: Lauryn Hill interview with Trace magazine
• June 10 2005:2005: Lauryn Hill Def Poetry Jam Performance
• Rolling Stone: Lauryn Hill
• Oct 30 2003: Rolling Stone magazine, "The Mystery of Lauryn Hill: She made one of the greatest albums of the Nineties—then what happened?" by Touré
• International The Fugees fansite with news on Lauryn Hill