Jill Scott - queen of neo-soul

Our featured hair extension-wearing black artist today is American soul and R & B singer/songwriter, poet and actress Jill Scott. Raised in Philadephia, Jill started her career as a spoken word artist and poet. moving into music in 2000 when her first album 'Who is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol 1' was released. She had hits in that year with 'A Long Walk' and 'Gettin' In The Way' and won a 2005 Grammy for Best Urban/Alternative R&B Performance for "Cross My Mind." The live album, 'Experience: Jill Scott 826', was released in 2001, her second full-length album, 'Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol 2' in 2004, which was followed by 'The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol 3' in 2007. As a vocalist, she has infused jazz. R & B, spoken word and hip hop to create a distinct style that has been called 'neo-soul'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw3Z8Oa7E3Y
Moving to acting she played 50s R and B singer Big Mama Thornton in 'Hounddog' in 2007 and also starred in 'Why Did I Get Married'. In 2008, she appeared as Prescious Romotswe in The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency playing a detective. She filmed additional episodes for the series in Botswana in late 2008, co-funded by the BBC and HBO, that were broadcast as a seven-part series on BBC1 and HBO in 2009. BBC and HBO are contemplating whether to produce a second round of episodes of the series.

Jill set up the Blues Babe Foundation to help young ethnic students pay for university expenses and has been outspoken about how black women are portrayed in rap songs and videos, criticising the content for being 'dirty, inappropriate, unhealthy and polluted.'

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