Happiness for Mary J. Blige

Mary J. Blige birth name Marilyn Janice Blige born in Bronx New York to her parents Thomas and Cora Blige. Thomas a jazz musician and Cora a nurse. Mary's father Thomas left when Mary was only 4 years old and her mother had to raise her and her older sister all alone. Mary also has a brother Bruce Miller and a younger sister Jonquell that didn't reside in the hone with them. Later on in life Mary and her family moved to Yonkers New York one of the most baddest ever places to live. When Mary became a teen she did street drugs and later dropped out of school. Mary was headed down a road of self destruction and at the time didn't know why. In the year 1988 Mary recorded a song by Anita Baker in a recording booth at a local mall. Her mother's friend gave the cassette tape to a man name Jeff Redd who was a recording artist for Uptown Records. In the year 1989 Mary was signed to Uptown Records she started out as a back up singer for artists like Father MC and Jeff Redd.

Mary made her very first album debut titled What's the 411? in 1992 the album had a street sound with beats for days her new fans went crazy. Everything seems to be going great for Mary, but Mary still wasn't happy with herself she had a real bad drinking problem and she also abuse drugs. In 1995 her second album My Life came out which she had alot of songs up there that she wrote about her personal pain about her very public relationship with R&B Music group Jodeci lead singer K Ci Hailey. It was also noticed that Mary had a very bad attitude problem. In 1997 she released Share my World followed by self titled album Mary with her releasing even more ghetto fabulous hits in 2001 with album No More Drama the sound of this album was a more mature, wiser woman. She also released Love and Life in 2003 and one of the greatest albums is The Breakthrough this album tells you all about the updated happy Mary. Around December of 2006 the release of Reflections: A Retrospective.

Mary J. Blige is is doing big things and doing them well she is now happy and everyone can finally tell Mary always says:

"God comes first if I don't love him, I can't love anybody and if I can't love me I can't love nobody"

Mary is now married to an record industry executive Martin Kendu Isaacs. Kendu helped her stop drinking and helped her with alot of other personal issues. They married December 7, 2003. Mary J. Blige is known around the world as the Queen of Hip Hop Soul. Mary J. Blige is a wife a stepmother a friend a six time Grammy Award winner a singer and songwriter, actress, producer, and a All time Idol to her Fans and now she is even better now that she is happy.