2024-03-23 10:25:19
The new Aretha Franklin or Nina Simone, this is how the career of Lauryn Hill was presented, who entered the world of entertainment when she was 15 years old.
A privileged voice, a natural charm and an ability to take on the stage never seen before.
For this reason, no one was surprised that when he released his first album, the immediate success was reflected in the fact that he managed to make history in the world of music, when he went where no one had gone before.
Laury Hill was destined to be a musical great, however, the decline came soon for the singer, perhaps much faster than many imagined when listening to her version of “Killing Me Softly”, when her career as a soloist did not even exist. began.
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Lauryn Hill’s career began at the age of 15, when together with Wyclef Jean and Pras she formed The Fugees, a rap, rhythm and blues band that turned out to be the springboard for the singer’s career.
Their performance of “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” an original by Roberta Flack, became their biggest hit and the album it was on, The Score, led them to win two Grammy Awards, for Best Rap Album and Best R&B Performance for a duo or group with a singer.
The success led to each starting a solo career and that’s when Lauryn Hill began writing her own chapter in world music.
She released “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” in 1998, an album that, at more than 25 years old, is still considered one of the best in history.
Lauryn became the first woman to earn 10 Grammy nominations and on award night she took home 5, including Best Album of the Year, making her the first hip-hop artist to win this award. The race was only going up.
However, Lauryn Hill gave up being the music star that everyone expected, limited her work and simply chose to stop recording albums, depriving the world of her art, but privileging living her life, although things did not turn out so well.
Her relationship with Bob Marley’s son
At 22 years old and at the peak of success, Lauryn Hill decided to embrace motherhood with her partner since 1996, the American football player Rohan Marley, son of the legendary singer Bob Marley, with whom she was until 2011.
In 1997 they welcomed Zion David, then in 1998 Selah Louise, Joshia Omaru in 2001, John Nesta in 2002) and finally Sarah, the youngest of the family, who arrived in 2008.
“To Zion,” the song she dedicated to her first-born, partly explains the path the artist followed in those years, leaving behind the pressure of being an artist on the cusp of success, reports El Mundo.
“Everyone told me to be smart / Take care of your career, they told me / Lauryn, daughter, think with your head / But I preferred to feel with my heart,” says part of the lyrics that reflect her decision to dedicate herself to her family.
However, her path continued to move away from music and rather became attached to the church through Brother Anthony, who urged her to delve into the study of the Bible and continue to leave her career behind.
Although in 2003 he attended a concert at the Vatican, while the Pope was John Paul II, causing one of the biggest controversies of his career.
At the Christmas concert, Lauryn Hill took advantage of her moment on stage to directly attack the Catholic Church for its cover-up of sexual abuse against children carried out by priests in the United States, he stated. The universal.
The withdrawal of music
Although in the years to come she briefly returned to music and reunited with her bandmates from The Fudgees, the reality is that Lauryn never released a new studio album again, although she had a special on MTV Unplugged.
In an interview with Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Album podcast, she noted that for her, “The strangest thing is that no one from my label has ever called me to ask: ‘How can we help you make another album?’ never…never’…did I ever say? Never!”.
Although he explained that being with a label behind him could put his art at risk by limiting his creativity, he stated Harper’s Bazaar.
He also noted, “after The Miseducation, there were dozens of tentacled obstructionists, politicians, repressive agendas, unrealistic expectations, and saboteurs everywhere,” explaining his experience in his years of success.
In 2011, she definitively ended her relationship with Rohan Marley, and later had her sixth child, whose paternity was never revealed.
Lauryn Hill ended up in jail for three months
Lauryn Hill to jail
Although the public event that marked her the most in the last decade is her time in prison, after being sentenced in 2013 to 3 months in prison, 3 months of house arrest and 1 year of probation, plus a fine of 60 thousand dollars that was added to the payment of the million dollars that he owed to the Treasury.
The artist acknowledged not having declared income of 2.3 million dollars to the treasury in the periods from 2005 to 2007 and then, 2008 to 2009, for the copyrights that belong to her, she stated. The country.
Convicted in May, she entered a minimum security prison in the Danbury, Connecticut, area in July of the same year. Here she helped with the cleaning, cooking and gardening tasks, while living with other inmates.
On October 7 he left the prison. At the time, his lawyer, Nathan Hochman, stated in a statement “Ms. Hill was released from federal prison today after serving his sentence. She has been released a few days earlier based on a series of factors… such as her good behavior. “She will now begin a year of bail with three months of confinement at home during that year,” he stated. Los 40.
That same day, the singer surprised her fans with the release of a new song, Consumerism, a song that Hill released from her experience facing trial and prison.
Lauryn Hill’s legacy and a son who is doing well
Lauryn Hill is still present in music, she returned to concerts, although sporadically, in the meantime she even performed in Chile, when in 2019 she came to the Fauna Autumn festival to perform her best hits.
Her musical legacy is so relevant that the Recording Academy included her this year among the members of the Grammy Hall of Fame, for her album “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill”, stated Variety.
Although recently the one who is gaining a space in music is his son, Joshua Omaru Marley, better known as YG Marley.
When you are the grandson of Bob Marley and the son of Lauryn Hill, it is very difficult for things not to go well with you in music and YG knows this well, as he returned reggae to the popularity charts.
His song “Praise Jah In The Moonlight’ entered at number 39 on the “Hot 100”, a milestone that had last been achieved in 2017 with ‘Bam’, the collaboration of Damian Marley and Jay-Z.
“YG Marley begins the song with a sample of his grandfather, specifically from the song ‘Crisis’, and maintains that groove throughout the song. Along with choirs capable of filling your headphones,” he stated. JNSP.
Without a doubt, we will hear from him again and perhaps, sometime his mother will accompany him, to delight the public with one of the most privileged voices in music.
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