"Mother of Hip Hop" - Sylvia Robinson, singer, songwriter and producer who founded the pioneering hip-hop group Sugarhill Gang and made the first commercially successful rap record with them, was born in New York in 1935 and died at the age of 75 , September 2011.
Even before she and husband Joe Robinson founded Sugar Hill Records in the 1970s, she established a successful career as an R&B singer. In the late 1960s, when she and her husband founded All Platinum Records, Ms. Robinson became one of the few women to produce albums in any genre. She played an important role in the development of The Moments, creating their 1970 hit "Love on a Two-Street Street." But her greatest achievement was the decision in 1979 to produce a recording of what was then considered a new musical art form known as rapping, the masterpiece “Rapper's Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang.
It sold over 8 million copies, peaked at #4 on the R&B charts and #36 on the Billboard Hot 100, opening the door for other hip-hop artists. Ms. Robinson later signed with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and recorded "The Message" in 1982.
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