Amoeba Music

The career of Millie Jackson famously started with her sassy mouth and courageous bravado. While attending a concert at the small Harlem club Smalls Paradise in the 1960s, Jackson was said to have heckled the woman singing onstage during a singing contest. Indignant, the woman dared Jackson to come onstage and try it herself. Jackson did not hesitate and, after piping out Ben E. King’s “Don’t Play It No More,” the crowd went wild. Within weeks she was working the club circuit in New York. Since then she has cultivated a reputation for harsh, comical, often sexually explicit lyrics, with famous songs like “Breakin’ Up Somebody Else’s Home” and “Check in The Mail” a small part of her repertoire. Primarily... Read More

City Of Origin:

Thomson, Georgia, United States

Genre:

Soul, R&B, Disco

Birthdate:

07/15/1944