She has risen to be a superstar with 9 Grammies and 6 multi platinum albums to her credit . She has earned the title of Queen of Hip-Hop Soul. To some people, when you say Mary, they think of Mary J. not the Virgin Mary from the Bible. This Mary sings of the ups and downs of her life uniquely communicating with her fans.
The sexual abuse she experienced when she was 5 years old from a family acquaintance is even revealed in one of her songs. At 23 she was an angry girl who fought with her interviewers and her record label sent her to edict classes. She also refused to change her name at the record label’s request to Mary Brown.
At the pier she could sing really loud and like a kind of therapy it would relieve her from all the oppression and depression. When a tape of her singing Karaoke at 17 years old made it to a record producer, she was immediately signed up. After years of drinking and cocaine abuse she was able to change her ways with the help from her husband and manager to whom she has been married to for 8 years.
She enjoys her career more now than ever because she has calmed down. Before she was singing from pain now she sings for pleasure. She also has a unique sense of style known as ghetto fabulous. More importantly she has been the voice of the women in Hip-Hop that tells stories from a woman’s prospective.
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