Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill, 2014

Lauryn Hill (born May 25, 1975 in South Orange , New Jersey ) is an American singer , rapper , songwriter and actress . She was best known as the lead singer of hip-hop - band Fugees and as a first fivefold Grammy -Gewinnerin in 1999th

Career

Lauryn Hill at a concert in Central Park in October 2005

Lauryn Hill founded the band Fugees in 1988 with Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel . She also worked as an actress (e.g. Sister Act 2 - In Divine Mission with Whoopie Goldberg ) and studied history at Columbia High School. The first Fugees album Blunted on Reality was not a commercial success despite excellent reviews. The second album, The Score (1996), sold 17 million copies and was awarded multiple platinum records and two Grammy Awards . The album also included a cover version of Killing Me Softly , which stayed at number 1 on the German music charts for nine weeks. This success made all three members of the Fugees international stars.

In 1998 Lauryn Hill released her first solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill , which became a huge hit worldwide. It also contained Doo Wop (That Thing) , which was released as a single. In 1999 she was nominated for eleven Grammy Awards for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and she was the first female artist to win in five categories ( Album of the Year , Best New Artist , Best Female R&B Vocal Performance , Best R&B Song and Best R&B Album ) . The title of the album is derived from Carter G. Woodson's book The Miseducation Of The Negro . In 1999 she received the Kora All African Music Award in the Diaspora category . In 2002 an unplugged album was released, on which Hill introduced several new songs to the acoustic guitar and without an accompanying musician, which were never released as a studio version. In 2003 she made headlines when she sharply criticized the clergy in a speech before her performance at the Christmas concert in the Vatican .

In 2012 she went on tour again after a long break. The reviews of some of their appearances, e.g. B. their concert in the Berlin Tempodrom, were marked by the disappointment with their fragile voice, which could not reach the level of earlier years, but also with the poor sound mix on site. When Hill's voice failed with the first songs, many viewers acknowledged their performance with boos and left the event prematurely.

Personal

Lauryn Hill has five children with her long-time partner, former American football player and current musician Rohan Marley , a son of the late reggae musician Bob Marley . Their sixth child has a different father, according to Rohan Marley.

In 2013, Lauryn Hill was sentenced to three months in jail for tax evasion after failing to pay tax on income of $ 1.8 million between 2005 and 2007. A court in Newark , New Jersey, ordered an additional three months of house arrest. Hill pleaded guilty.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1998	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill	DE9 (55 weeks) DE	AT4th gold (38 weeks)AT	CH11 platinum (39 weeks)CH	UK2 × 3 Triple platinum (87 weeks)UK	US1 × 8 Eight times platinum (82 weeks)US	First published: August 25, 1998 Sales worldwide: 20,000,000+

Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2002	MTV Unplugged No. 2.0	DE30 (10 weeks) DE	AT2 (17 weeks) AT	CH3 gold (17 weeks)CH	UK40 (3 weeks) UK	US3 platinum (14 weeks)US	First published: May 7, 2002

Video albums

• 2002: MTV Unplugged No. 2.0 (First published May 7, 2002)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1998	Doo Wop (That Thing) The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill	DE17 (14 weeks) DE	AT33 (3 weeks) AT	CH10 (14 weeks) CH	UK3 platinum (9 weeks)UK	US1 gold (21 weeks)US	First published: July 27, 1998
	Ex-Factor The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill	DE52 (4 weeks) DE	-	CH22 (8 weeks) CH	UK4th silver (14 weeks)UK	US21 (22 weeks) US	First published: December 8, 1998
1999	Everything Is Everything The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill	-	-	-	UK20 (9 weeks) UK	US35 gold (18 weeks)US	First published: May 4, 1999

More singles

• 1998: Nothing Even Matters
• 1998: To Zion
• 1998: Can't Take My Eyes Off You
• 2002: Mr. Intentional
• 2007: Lose Myself
• 2010: Repercussions
• 2013: Neurotic Society (Compulsory Mix)
• 2013: Consumerism
• 2015: Feeling Good
• 2019: A Perfect Match (with Kali Ranks)
• 2019: Guarding the Gates
• 2020: Save the Day (2020) (with Mariah Carey )

Singles as a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1996	If I Ruled the World (Imagine That) It Was Written	DE4th gold (20 weeks)DE	AT30 (11 weeks) AT	CH7 (22 weeks) CH	UK12 (7 weeks) UK	US53 (20 weeks) US	First published: May 28, 1996 Nas feat. Lauryn Hill
1997	The Sweetest Thing Love Jones (OST)	-	-	-	UK18 (8 weeks) UK	-	First published: March 11, 1997 with Refugee Camp All Stars
	Guantanamera The Carnival	DE29 (11 weeks) DE	-	CH19 (10 weeks) CH	UK25 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: April 22nd, 1997 Wyclef Jean feat. Celia Cruz , Jeni Fujita & Lauryn Hill
	All my time	DE87 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	UK57 (2 weeks) UK	-	First release: 1997 Paid & Live featuring Lauryn Hill
1999	All That I Can Say Mary	-	-	-	UK29 (4 weeks) UK	US44 (14 weeks) US	First published: July 9, 1999 Mary J. Blige feat. Lauryn Hill
	Turn Your Lights Down Low Chant Down Babylon	DE33 (14 weeks) DE	AT22 (10 weeks) AT	CH11 (16 weeks) CH	UK15 (7 weeks) UK	-	First release: 1999 Bob Marley feat. Lauryn Hill

Further guest contributions

• 1997: Retrospect for Life ( Common feat.Lauryn Hill)
• 2006: So High ( John Legend feat. Lauryn Hill)
• 2006: Say ( Method Man feat. Lauryn Hill)
• 2007: Summer ( Kool & the Gang feat. Lauryn Hill)
• 2019: Coming Home ( Pusha T feat. Ms. Lauryn Hill)
• 2020: We Got Love ( Teyana Taylor feat. Ms. Lauryn Hill)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Belgium 1999: for the album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill  France 1999: for the single Turn Your Lights Down Low 2002: for the album MTV Unplugged No. 2.0  Spain 1999: for the album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Platinum record  Australia 1999: for the single Doo Wop (That Thing)  France 1999: for the album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill  Canada 2002: for the album MTV Unplugged No. 2.0  Netherlands 1999: for the album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill  Norway 2000: for the album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill  Sweden 1999: for the album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

2 × platinum record  Australia 2019: for the album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill  Europe 1999: for the album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 3 × platinum record  New Zealand 1999: for the album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 7 × platinum record  Canada 1999: for the album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	-	3 × platinum3	210,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	gold1	-	25,000	ultratop.be
Germany (BVMI)	-	gold1	-	250,000	musikindustrie.de
Europe (IFPI)	-	-	2 × platinum2	(2,000,000)	ifpi.org ( Memento from January 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
France (SNEP)	-	2 × gold2	platinum1	525,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Canada (MC)	-	-	8 × platinum8th	800,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	-	3 × platinum3	45,000	nztop40.co.nz
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	-	platinum1	100,000	nvpi.nl
Norway (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	50,000	ifpi.no
Austria (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	25,000	ifpi.at
Sweden (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	80,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	gold1	platinum1	75,000	hitparade.ch
Spain (Promusicae)	-	gold1	-	50,000	elportaldemusica.es
United States (RIAA)	-	2 × gold2	9 × platinum9	10,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	-	4 × platinum4th	1,700,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	9 × gold9	34 × platinum34

Filmography

• 1991: Young and Passionate - As Life Plays ( As the World Turns , TV series)
• 1992: Here and Now (TV series, one episode)
• 1993: King of the Marble (King of the Hill)
• 1993: Sister Act 2 - In divine Mission (Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit)
• 1996: Young Fates ( ABC Afterschool Specials , TV series, an episode)
• 1997: Hav Plenty
• 1998: restaurant
• 2005: Block Party (Documentary)

Web links

Commons : Lauryn Hill  - Collection of Images

• Lauryn Hill in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Lauryn Hill at Allmusic (English)
• Lauryn Hill at laut.de
• http://www.musicline.de/de/artist_bio/Hill%2CLauryn
• http://lauryn.fugees-online.de/

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of the 1999 Kora event winners ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 17, 2010 
2. ↑ http://www.morgenpost.de/kultur/article1892017/HipHop-Star-Lauryn-Hill-kehrt-nach-Berlin-zurueck.html
3. ↑ http://www.maerkischeallgemeine.de/cms/ziel/604050/DE?article_id=2517170
4. ↑ http://www.eventim.de/lauryn-hill-fanreports.html?doc=artistPages/fanReports&fun=artist&action=fanreports&allfanreports=true&kuid=361&index_report=15
5. ^ Lauryn Hill Welcomes Sixth Child , People (online), accessed August 14, 2011
6. ↑ Lauryn Hill welcomes son ( Memento from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
7. ^ Tax evasion: Lauryn Hill goes to jail. In: orf.at , May 7, 2013, accessed on November 21, 2017.
8. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
9. ^ The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Sales