Sylvia Robinson, the R&B and disco performer who became “the mother of hip-hop” with her label Sugar Hill Records, died Sept. 29 in a Secaucus, N.J., hospital. She was 75 and reportedly suffered from ...
Rights to the Sugar Hill Records founder's life story were acquired from her son, Joey Robinson By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Producer Paula Wagner has acquired film rights to the life story of ...
Sylvia Robinson (1935-2011) has deservedly been called “the mother of hip-hop” for her efforts in co-founding and running Sugar Hill Records. But even as impressive an honorific as that can’t begin to ...
*Sylvia Robinson was a bona fide boss in multiple areas of the music industry, and this EUR Video Throwback will celebrate them all – from her beginnings as a successful recording artist in the 1950s, ...
EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning filmmaker Justin Simien is set to direct Warner Bros. untitled Sylvia Robinson project about the famed singer, songwriter, and Sugar Hill Records founder known as ‘The Mother ...
TENAFLY, N.J. (CBSNewYork)-- Forty years ago, three guys in Englewood, New Jersey, made hip-hop history. The Sugarhill Gang helped put rap on the map when their song "Rapper's Delight" became the ...
The son of hip-hop pioneer Sylvia Robinson sat down with News 12's Naomi Yane to celebrate New Jersey's ties to hip-hop and Robinson's legacy. “Love is Strange” is a late '50s hit song by R&B duo ...
We are saddened to learn that singer, songwriter and record producer, Sylvia Robinson died this morning at age 75. Robinson is known in the hip hop realm as the “mother of hip hop,” after seamlessly ...
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