Andrew Barker Senior Features WriterMary J. Blige’s 1992 debut, “What’s the 411?,” was an instant smash that established the young Yonkers singer as a multiplatinum hitmaker, a fashion icon, and the prototype for what an R&B star could look and sound like in the hip-hop era.
But it wasn’t until her second album, 1994’s “My Life,” that the Blige most of us are familiar with – the heart-on-a-sleeve singer-songwriter unafraid to mine her own considerable trauma through music – truly began to take shape.Tracing that album’s dark genesis, exploring its legacy with fans, and featuring brief (perhaps too brief) performance clips from a pair of 2019 concerts Blige staged to celebrate its 25th anniversary, Vanessa Roth’s “Mary J.
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