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Sylvia Robinson
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American singer, record producer, and executive (1936–2011)
Film & TV
Harlem, New York City, New York, USA
Sylvia Robinson (née Vanderpool; May 29, 1935 – September 29, 2011) was an American singer, record producer, and record label executive. Robinson had two R&B chart toppers: as half of Mickey & Sylvia with the 1957 single "Love Is Strange", and her solo record "Pillow Talk" in 1973. She later became known for her work as founder and CEO of the hip hop label Sugar Hill Records; she was dubbed the…
Known for
- 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self - Inductee (archive footage)2022
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sylvia
- Family name
- Robbins
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Harlem
- Place of death
- Secaucus
- Occupation
- artist and repertoire
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- hip-hop
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- King
- Image
- Sylvia Robinson at at her desk in her Englewood, NJ office (1982) (cropped).jpg
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- nickname
- The Mother of Hip–Hop
- married name
- Sylvia Robinson
- cause of death
- heart failure
- date of birth
- 1936-03-06
- date of death
- 2011-09-29
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- pseudonym
- Sylvia Robbins
- start of work period
- 1950-00-00
- birth name
- Sylvia Vanterpool
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
- Commons category
- Sylvia Robinson
- manner of death
- natural causes
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