- Born
- Birth nameMary Jane Blige
- Nicknames
- The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul
- The Queen of R&B
- M.J.B.
- Empress of Soul
- Queen of Hip Hop
- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- Mary J. Blige was born on January 11, 1971 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. She is a music artist and actress, known for Mudbound (2017), Rock of Ages (2012) and The Help (2011). She was previously married to Kendu Isaacs.
- SpouseKendu Isaacs(December 7, 2003 - June 20, 2018) (divorced)
- ParentsThomas Blige
- RelativesLaTonya Blige-DaCosta(Sibling)Bruce Miller(Half Sibling)
- Platinum blonde hair
- Powerful mezzo-soprano vocals
- Is the first person nominated for an Academy Award for acting and writing an original song in the same year.
- Her mother, Cora Blige, survived a stabbing by a neighbor (1987).
- A huge fan of Led Zeppelin since she was a child, the singer went so far as to perform the band's classic "Stairway to Heaven" as a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986) [April 13, 2010].
- Credits her husband, Kendu Isaacs, for helping her clean up her act and to overcome her drug and alcohol addiction.
- Her job before she became a singer was a Directory Assistance operator, thus the title of her debut album "What's the 411?" (1992).
- It almost kills me to say I'm in love, because as soon as men hear that shit, they're gone.
- I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.
- My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block. I don't know what kind of God the rest of y'all are serving, but the God I serve says, "Mary, you need to be the hottest thing this year, and I'm gonna make sure you're doing that."
- I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great. Then we have our struggles, and we work through it. That's life.
- The important thing is to realize that no matter what people's opinions may be, they're only just that - people's opinions. You have to believe in your heart what you know to be true about yourself. And let that be that.
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