Missy elliott born
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Missy "misdemeanor" Elliott Biography
1971 • Pompey, Virginia
Hip-hop head
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Missy Elliott
Better known as Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott, five-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter/producer Melissa Arnette Elliott was the top female hip-hop album seller throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s thanks to Top 10 hits like “Hot Boyz,” “Lose Control,” “Get Ur Freak On,” “Gossip Folks,” and “Work It”—which won the Grammy in 2004 for Best Female Rap Solo Performance as well as MTV’s Video of the Year Award. Her groundbreaking songs dealing with topics including feminism, gender equality, body positivity and sex positivity blazed the trail for the likes of Destiny’s Child, Eve, Macy Gray, Beyonce and Nicki Minaj.
Elliott was born in 1971 in Portsmouth, Virginia, and after a traumatic childhood, formed a girl group, Fayze, writing most of its material and enlisting neighborhood friend Tim Mosley (Timbaland) to produce. Impressing Jodeci’s DeVante Swing, she and the group moved to New York, changed its name to Sista, and signed to Elektra Records via DeVante’s Swing Mob imprint.
She wrote (and rapped on) her first hit, “That’s What Little Girls Are Made of,” for Raven-Symoné, in 1993, and fronted Sista’s 1994 single &ldq
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Missy Elliott
American rapper (born 1971)
Musical artist
Melissa Arnette "Missy" Elliott (born July 1, 1971), also known as Misdemeanor,[3][4] is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. She began her musical career as a member of the R&B girl group Sista during the 1990s, who were part of the larger musical collective Swing Mob—led by DeVante Swing of Jodeci. The former group's commercially unsuccessful debut album, 4 All the Sistas Around da World (1994), was released by Elektra Records and met with positive critical reception. She collaborated with album's producer and Swing Mob cohort Timbaland to work in songwriting and production for other acts, yielding commercially successful releases for 702, Aaliyah, SWV, and Total.
Elliott re-emerged as a solo act with numerous collaborations and guest appearances by 1996, and in July of the following year, she released her debut studio album, Supa Dupa Fly (1997). As her mainstream breakthrough, the album was met with critical and commercial success, peaking at number three on the Billboard 200 and spawning the Billboard Hot 100-top 20 single "Sock It 2 Me" (featuring Da Brat).[5] Her second album, Da Real World (1999) produced the singles "She's a Bitch