Stephanie Mills

This article is about the musician. For the Canadian actress and voice actress, see Stephanie Anne Mills. For other people, see Stephanie Mills (disambiguation).

Stephanie Mills
Mills for the 2020 United States Census
Born (1957-03-22) March 22, 1957 (age 67)[1]
Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Occupations
  • Singer
  • songwriter
Years active1966–present
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1980; div. 1983)​
[2][3][4]
Dino Meminger
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(m. 1989; div. 1991)​
[5]
Michael Saunders
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(m. 1993; div. 2001)​
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Children1
Musical career
Genres
InstrumentVocals
Labels
Websitehttps://iamstephaniemills.com/

Stephanie Dorthea Mills[8][9] (born March 22, 1957)[1][10] is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to stardom as "Dorothy" in the original seven-time Tony Award winning Broadway run of the musical The Wiz from 1974 to 1979. The song "Home" from the show later became a Number 1 U.S. R&B hit and her signature song.

During the 1980s, she had five Number 1 R&B hits, including "Home", "I Have Learned to Respect the Power of Love", "I Feel Good All Over", "(You're Puttin') A Rush on Me" and "Something in the Way (You Make Me Feel)". She won a Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for her song "Never Knew Love Like This Before" in 1981. Her albums What Cha Gonna Do with My Lovin, Sweet Sensation and Stephanie went gold or platinum, all through 20th Century Fox Records.

  1. ^ a b @iamstephaniemills (August 12, 2017). "Celebrating 60 years of me". Instagram. Archived from the original on December 23, 2021. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Ebony was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Marriage Gone Sour For Mills And Daniels". Google Books. JET Magazine/Johnson Publishing Company. August 27, 1981. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  4. ^ "Music: There's More To Stephanie Mills Than Meets The Eye". Google Books. Orange Coast Magazine. March 1, 1984. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  5. ^ "Special Occasion". Google Books. JET Magazine/Johnson Publishing Company. June 11, 1990. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  6. ^ Annie Gowen (February 23, 1996). "There's Still No Place Like Home For Mills". articles.chicagotribune. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  7. ^ "Stephanie Mills Wed". Google Books. JET Magazine/Johnson Publishing Company. February 8, 1993. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  8. ^ Betts, Graham (June 2, 2014). Motown Encyclopedia. AC Publishing. ISBN 9781311441546. Retrieved May 19, 2018 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ Hogan, Ed. "Stephanie Mills Biography". allmusic.com. AllMusic. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
  10. ^ Hogan, Ed. "Artist Biography [Stephanie Mills]". AllMusic.com. Retrieved May 11, 2015.