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Millie Jackson is an African-American R&B/Soul singer-songwriter and actress whose music has also explored Disco, Hip-Hop, Pop, Rock and even Country. Her powerful vocal performances are also distinguished by long, humorous, and explicit spoken sections in her music; her work from the 1970s and 1980s, is often cited as an influence on female rappers. She is the mother of Contemporary R&B singer, Keisha Jackson.

Millie Jackson was born in the small town of Thompson, Georgia, on 15 July 1944; she was the daughter of a sharecropper. Her mother died while Jackson was still a child, and subsequently she and her father moved to Newark, New Jersey. By the time she was in her mid-teens, she moved to Brooklyn, New York, and lived with an aunt. She occasionally worked as a model for magazines like Jive and Sepia.

Her career is said to have begun on a dare to enter a 1964 Harlem nightclub talent contest, which she soundly won.

Though she first recorded for MGM records, she soon left and began her long association with Spring records. Among her early hits was Hurts So Good which was featured in the blaxploitation film Cleopatra Jones. During the 1970’s, she travelled the Southern club circuit along with other bands like The Mighty Majors. She is a former Grammy Award nominee for If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don’t Want to Be Right) from the album Caught Up. On that album, the follow-up Still Caught Up, and others, she was backed by the renowned Muscle Shoals rhythm section. Her voice is frequently compared to Gladys Knight’s.

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1		(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right			128
2		It Hurts So Good			68
3		It's All Over But The Shouting			54
4		My Man, A Sweet Man			41
5		Summer (The First Time)			40
6		I Cry			37
7		The Rap			36
7		All I Want Is A Fighting Chance			36
9		I'm Tired Of Hiding			30
10		So Easy Going, So Hard Coming Back			29
11		All The Way Lover			25
12		I'm Through Trying To Prove My Love To You			24
13		Loving Arms			23
14		Ask Me What You Want			16
15		(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right (reprise)			15

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