Blige has sold 50 million albums worldwide and 80 million records worldwide. She went on to release 13 studio albums, eight of which have achieved multi-platinum worldwide sales. Her career began in 1991 when she was signed to Uptown Records. Mary Jane Blige (/b l aɪ ʒ / born January 11, 1971) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and philanthropist. She was married to her manager, record executive Kendu Isaacs, from 2003 until 2018. Blige spent her early years in Richmond Hill, Georgia, where she sang in a Pentecostal church. The family subsisted on her mother’s earnings as a nurse after her father left the family in the mid-1970s, the former an alcoholic and the latter a Vietnam War veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. She has an older sister LaTonya Blige-DaCosta, and brother, Bruce Miller. She was born to mother Cora, a nurse, and father Thomas Blige, a Jazz musician. Afterwards she and her family moved back to New York and resided in the Schlobohm Housing Projects, located in Yonkers, New York. Blige was born on Januin New York, in the borough of The Bronx, but spent some time in Savannah, Georgia until she was 7. Her most popular songs include “Be Without You,” “Real Love,” “My Life,” and “Not Gon’ Cry.” In 2019, she began appearing in Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy. Grammy Award-winning R&B singer who’s released more than half a dozen multi-platinum records, including My Life, which went 3x Platinum and won the 1995 Billboard Music Award for Top R&B Album.
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