Jill Scott began her career as a spoken word poet, before making her name at the end of the nineties when she was discovered by the hip-hop group The Roots (she originally wrote and sang the hit You Got Me, a later version of which was to win a Grammy when performed by The Roots and Erykah Badu), before becoming a platinum star in her own right with her 2000 album Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1. The second two albums in her Words and Sounds trilogy were both gold records, while her most recent two albums, (The Light of the Sun, 2011, Woman, 2015) both got to number one on the US Billboard chart.
Scott has also made her name in the last decade as an actress: she was chosen by Anthony Minghella, the director of the Oscar-winning film The English Patient, to play the lead role in his last film, which was subsequently developed into a full BBC/HBO television series (The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency), while her most recent role was as the wife of James Brown in the Mick-Jagger produced biopic The James Brown Story.
The singer has worked with a whole range of artists (including Will Smith, Common, Sérgio Mendes, Dr. Dre and De La Soul), and won a Grammy award in the traditional R&B category for God Bless the Child, a cover of the Billie Holiday song in collaboration with George Benson and Al Jarreau. (She has also won a Grammy award in the best urban/alternative performer, as well as for a duet with the rapper Lupe Fiasco.)
Robert Glasper first worked with Jill Scott in 2013 on the Calls single from Black Radio 2, the follow up to his Grammy award-winning album Black Radio, providing the starting point for their joint tour.


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