Millie Jackson

Millie Jackson
Jackson performing at the Howard Theatre in 2012
Jackson performing at the Howard Theatre in 2012
Background information
Birth nameMildred Virginia Jackson[1]
Born (1944-07-15) July 15, 1944 (age 80)[2][3]
Thomson, Georgia, U.S.
Genres
Occupations
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • model
InstrumentVocals
Years active1964–present
Labels
Websiteweirdwreckuds.com
aj-productions.com

Mildred Virginia Jackson (born July 15, 1944)[4][2] is an American R&B and soul recording artist. Beginning her career in the early 1960s, three of Jackson's albums have been certified gold by the RIAA for over 500,000 copies sold. Jackson's songs often include long spoken sections, sometimes humorous, sometimes sexually explicit. According to the cataloguing site WhoSampled.com, her songs have appeared in 189 samples, 51 covers, and six remixes.[5]

Since she always enjoyed writing poems, in the early '70s Jackson began crafting such proto-rap R&B singles as the outspoken "A Child of God (It's Hard to Believe)".[6]

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  2. ^ a b Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate (January 10, 2013). An A-Z of Baby Names. OUP Oxford. ISBN 9780199669851 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (May 27, 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Edmondson, Jacqueline (October 3, 2013). Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories that Shaped Our Culture. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9780313393488 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "Millie Jackson – Samples, Covers and Remixes". WhoSampled. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
  6. ^ Cohen, Aaron (February 2, 2012). "Little out of bounds in Millie Jackson's world". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 20, 2019.