Mary J. Blige

ABOUT MARY J. BLIGE

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. 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 .

She sang at church and became Uptown Records' first female artist as a background singer in 1989.

She released a perfume called My Life, which broke HSN records by selling 65,000 bottles during its premiere.

She was married to her manager, record executive Kendu Isaacs , from 2003 until 2018.

Her 2003 single "Love @ 1st Sight" featured rapper Method Man and was produced by Diddy .