Saturday, February 17, 2007
posted by Chi-Chi at 2/17/2007 | Permalink
Lauryn Hill does 'URB' magazine
Lauryn Hill, five-time Grammy winner, is on the cover of 'URB' magazine.
Lauryn Hill by the numbers:
"At age 13, Hill performs at the Apollo's legendary Amateur Night.
At Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, Hill's a brainy cheerleader who gets approached by Prakazrel "Pras" Michel, who wants her to join a music group he's forming, The Refugee Camp. Soon after, she meets Pras's cousin, a Haitian immigrant, Wyclef Jean.
In 1991, while still in high school, she plays a runaway teen on the soap As The World Turns, bringing realism and heart to a write-off secondary character.
She gets accepted to Columbia University in New York and attends for one year.
In 1994, The Fugees' first album, Blunted on Reality, is released and falls short of expectations.
The follow-up, 1996's The Score, lives up to its name, thrusting the group into classic-album territory.
In 1996, she founds the Refugee Project, an outreach organization that supports a two-week overnight camp for at-risk youth. She's also heralded for supporting well-building projects in Kenya and Uganda, as well as for staging a rap concert in Harlem to promote voter registration.
In 1997, she has her first child with Rohan Marley.
She releases her solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, in 1998, and it goes diamond.
In 2001, she appears on an episode of MTV Unplugged; the corresponding album barely goes gold.
On December 13, 2003, Hill plays a Christmas benefit concert at the Vatican, denouncing "corruption, exploitation, and abuses."
The Fugees reunite to perform September 18, 2004, at Dave Chappelle's Block Party.
Hill makes her last big public appearance February 6, 2006, at the corner of Hollywood and Vine boulevards."
Read more of her interview with 'URB' magazine [here].
Labels: Lauryn Hill, Newsstand Snapshots
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