Mary J. Blige was born January 11th, 1971. She was the second of four children. Her mother Cora Blige was a nurse, and her father Thomas Blige was a Jazz musician. Blige spent her early years in Richmond Hill, Georgia, where she sang in a Pentecostal church. She would later move back to Yonkers into the Slobaum Houses with her mother, older sister, five cousins, and two aunts.
Blige dropped out of school in the eleventh grade. She also started to focus on a singing career then also. At seventeen Blige recorded an impromptu cover of Anita Baker's "Caught Up In the Rapture" at a recording booth in the Galleria Mall in White Plains, New York. Her mothers boyfriend at the time later sent it into Jeff Redd who was a recording artist for uptown records. Redd shared it with the CEO of the label and not long after Blige was signed to a record deal.
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