Lauryn apareceu com destaque interpretando
Rita Watson na segunda parte do filme
Sister Act (com
Whoopi Goldberg) e fez parte do trio musical
The Fugees, com
Wyclef Jean e Pras Michel. A banda
The Fugees acabou devido às constantes disputas internas entre os integrantes. A música mais conhecida deles é
Killing Me Softly, uma regravação de um sucesso na
década de 70 de
Roberta Flack.
A americana Lauryn Hill nasceu em
25 de maio de
1975 e cresceu na cidade de South Orange, em New Jersey. Desde criança, Hill cantava e fazia pequenas participações em programas de televisão e filmes. O seu envolvimento com o grupo de
rap e
rhythm & blues The Fugees começou aos 13 anos. Hill estudou na Columbia University, em Nova Iorque.
O seu primeiro disco solo,
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998), esteve no topo das paradas americanas durante quase todo o ano de seu lançamento. Além disso, garantiu a Hill onze nomeações para o prémio Grammy de 1999, feito jamais alcançado por uma cantora. Hill levou cinco, entre eles o de Álbum do Ano e Melhor Cantora do Ano. O disco, uma mistura de
rap,
soul,
reggae e
rhythm & blues, também lhe rendeu uma turnê ao lado dos
rappers de
Outkast.
Lauryn Noelle Hill (born May 26, 1975) is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actress. Hill's music career began after
Pras Michael and his cousin
Wyclef Jean approached her during high school to front hip-hop group
The Fugees. She also began acting; rising to national prominence portraying Rita Watson in
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993) and other minor rroles. The Fugees disbanded in 1997 with its members working on solo-projects; Hill subsequently released her only studio album
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998). Considered by
Rolling Stone to be one of the
500 greatest albums of all time, it received critical acclaim, sold 19 million copies and earned five
Grammy Awards, including
Album of the Year.
Hill co-produced the commercially successful
Supernatural for
Carlos Santana, in 1999,
for which she won another Grammy for Album of the Year, making her the only female artist to win the award consecutively and set a record for most wins of the award (later equaled by
Norah Jones). Shortly after, Hill entered a period out of public view, in part due to her displeasure with fame and the
music industry. After a four-year hiatus, she released
MTV Unplugged No. 2.0 (2002), a live recording of "deeply personal songs" performed mostly solo with an acoustic guitar.
Hill's subsequent activity has been sporadic since; she has recorded songs for soundtracks and mixtapes, as well as performing live at several music festivals, such as
Coachella. She has also collaborated with artists, such as
Ronald Isley and
Joss Stone.
In 2013, Hill was sentenced to three months imprisonment for
tax evasion by the State of New Jersey.
She has six children, five of whom are with
Rohan Marley, son of
reggae musician
Bob Marley.
(...)
Hill is a member of the
Ethiopian Orthodox Church in communion with the
Oriental Orthodox Church, and has been involved with the
Rastafari movement. Hill dated
Wyclef Jean throughout the majority of the
Fugees' early tenure, a relationship that friends have called "complicated."
In the summer of 1996, Hill met
Rohan Marley, the son of
reggae legend
Bob Marley. Hill and Marley started a family. They have five children together: Zion David (born August 3, 1997), Selah Louise (November 12, 1998), Joshua Omaru (January 26, 2002), John Nesta (mid-2003), and Sarah (January 2008).
She also has a son, Micah (born July 23, 2011), with another man.
