Mildred "Millie" Jackson (born July 15, 1944, Thomson, Georgia) is an American R&B;/soul singer-songwriter. Her vocal performances are distinguished by long, humorous, and explicit spoken sections in her music; She has also recorded many disco songs, some dance music songs, and a few country styled songs. Three of her albums have been certificated gold by the RIAA for over 500,000 copies. She is the mother of the contemporary R&B; singer, Keisha ...
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Mildred "Millie" Jackson (born July 15, 1944, Thomson, Georgia) is an American R&B;/soul singer-songwriter. Her vocal performances are distinguished by long, humorous, and explicit spoken sections in her music; She has also recorded many disco songs, some dance music songs, and a few country styled songs. Three of her albums have been certificated gold by the RIAA for over 500,000 copies. She is the mother of the contemporary R&B; singer, Keisha Jackson.
Jackson is the daughter of a sharecropper. Her mother died while Jackson was still a child, and subsequently she and her father moved to Newark, New Jersey. By the time she was in her mid-teens, she moved to Brooklyn, New York, and lived with an aunt. She occasionally worked as a model for magazines like Jive and Sepia.
Her career is said to have begun on a dare to enter a 1964 Harlem nightclub talent contest, which she won. Her voice is frequently compared to that of her inspiration, Gladys Knight.
Though she first recorded for MGM...
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