Lovin You is Easy Cause Youre Beautiful Artist

American singer-songwriter (1947–1979)

Minnie Riperton
Riperton in 1977
Born	Minnie Julia Riperton[1] [2] [3] (1947-11-08)November 8, 1947 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died	July 12, 1979(1979-07-12) (aged 31) Los Angeles, California, U.South.
Other names	Andrea Davis
Occupation	Singer–songwriter
Years agile	1962–1979
Notable work	"Lovin' Yous"
Spouse(southward)	Richard Rudolph ​ (m. )​
Children	two, including Maya Rudolph
Musical career
Genres	Soul R&B jazz psychedelic soul vocal jazz disco
Musical instrument(due south)	Vocals
Labels	Chess GRT Epic Capitol
Musical artist

Minnie Julia Riperton Rudolph (November eight, 1947 – July 12, 1979)^{[iv] [5]} was an American singer-songwriter all-time known for her 1975 single "Lovin' You" and her four octave D_three to F ♯ _seven coloratura soprano range.^[vi] She is also widely known for her utilise of the whistle register and has been referred to by the media as the "Queen of the Whistle Register."^{[ commendation needed ]}

Built-in in 1947, Riperton grew up in Chicago'due south Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side. As a child, she studied music, drama and dance at Chicago'due south Abraham Lincoln Center.^[seven] In her teen years, she sang pb vocals for the Chicago-based girl group the Gems. Her early affiliation with the Chicago-based Chess Records afforded her the opportunity to sing backing vocals for diverse established artists such as Etta James, Fontella Bass, Ramsey Lewis, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters. While at Chess, Riperton also sang lead for the experimental rock/soul grouping Rotary Connection, from 1967 to 1971.

On April 5, 1975, Riperton reached the noon of her career with her No. one single "Lovin' Yous". The single was the last release from her 1974 gold album titled Perfect Angel. In January 1976, Riperton was diagnosed with chest cancer, and in April, she underwent a radical mastectomy.^{[4] [8]} By the time of diagnosis, the cancer had metastasized and she was given about 6 months to live. Despite the grim prognosis, she continued recording and touring. She was i of the start celebrities to get public with a breast cancer diagnosis, only she did non disembalm that she was terminally sick. In 1977, she became a spokesperson for the American Cancer Society. In 1978, she received the American Cancer Society's Courage Honour, which was presented to her at the White Business firm by President Jimmy Carter. Riperton died of breast cancer on July 12, 1979, at the age of 31.

Early on life [edit]

Riperton was built-in in Chicago, the daughter of Thelma Inez (née Matthews) (1911–2005) and Daniel Webster Riperton (1898–1991), a Pullman porter.^{[ix] [10]} The youngest of eight children in a musical family, she embraced the arts early. Although she began with ballet and modern dance, her parents recognized her vocal and musical abilities and encouraged her to pursue music and voice. At Chicago'southward Abraham Lincoln Middle, she received operatic vocal training from Marion Jeffery. She practiced breathing and phrasing, with detail accent on wording. Jeffery also trained Riperton to use her full range. While studying nether Jeffery, she sang operettas and show tunes, in preparation for a career in opera. Jeffery was so convinced of her pupil's abilities that she strongly pushed her to further written report the classics at Chicago's Inferior Lyric Opera. The young Riperton was, however, becoming interested in soul, rhythm and dejection, and stone. After graduating from Hyde Park Loftier School (now Hyde Park Academy Loftier Schoolhouse), she enrolled at Loop College and became a member of Zeta Phi Beta sorority. She dropped out of college to pursue her music career.

Career [edit]

Early career [edit]

Riperton's first professional singing engagement was with The Gems, when she was 15. Raynard Miner, a bullheaded pianist, heard her singing during her stint with Hyde Park's A Cappella Choir and became her musical patron. The Gems had relatively limited commercial success, but proved to be a adept outlet for Riperton'southward talent. Eventually the group became a session grouping known equally Studio Three and it was during this period that they provided the backing vocals on the classic 1965 Fontella Bass striking "Rescue Me".^[11] In 1964, The Gems released a local hitting, I Can't Help Myself, and their last single, He Makes Me Experience And then Proficient, was released in 1965. The Gems later released records nether numerous names—nearly notably 1966's Infant I Desire You by the Girls Three and 1967's My Infant's Real by the Starlets. The latter has achieved cult status with northern soul fans and remains a favorite. It was a Motown-manner song reminiscent of Tammi Terrell. In 1968, Watered Down was released as a follow-up, under the name The Starlets. It was the last release of Riperton'south former daughter group. While a role of Studio 3, Riperton met her mentor, producer Billy Davis, who wrote her first local hit, "Solitary Girl", every bit well every bit "You Gave Me Soul". In honor of Davis, she used the pseudonym Andrea Davis for the release of those two singles.

Rotary Connectedness [edit]

In 1966, some months after her Andrea Davis singles hit the radio, Riperton joined Rotary Connexion, a funky rock-soul group creation of Marshall Chess, the son of Chess Records founder Leonard Chess. Rotary Connection consisted of Riperton, Chess, Judy Hauff, Sidney Barnes, and Charles Stepney. They released their debut album Rotary Connection in 1967 and, subsequently, 5 more albums: 1968's Aladdin and Christmas anthology Peace, Songs (1969), Dinner Music (1970), and Hey Dearest (1971).

In 1969 Riperton, forth with Rotary Connexion, played in the first Catholic Rock Mass at the Liturgical Briefing National Convention, Milwaukee Arena, Milwaukee, WI, produced past James F. Colaianni.

Come to My Garden [edit]

Riperton'due south debut solo album entitled Come to My Garden was produced, arranged, too equally orchestrated by her Rotary Connectedness band mate Charles Stepney and released in 1970 by GRT Records. Several of the songs were co-written by Stepney and Richard Rudolph, who married Riperton in August 1970. She was presented as a solo artist by Ramsey Lewis on Saturday, December 26, 1970 at Chicago'south famed London House. Riperton went on to perform several numbers from the album while accompanied by Stepney. Although commercially unsuccessful, Come to My Garden is at present considered a masterpiece by music critics and many others in the music industry.^[4]

Perfect Angel and "Lovin' Yous" [edit]

In 1973, a higher intern for Ballsy Records found Riperton in semi-retirement. She had become a homemaker and a mother of two in Gainesville, Florida. Afterward he heard a demo of the song "Seeing You This Way", the rep took the tape to Don Ellis, VP of A&R for Epic. Riperton signed with Epic Records, and the family unit moved to Los Angeles, California. The subsequent record, Perfect Angel, turned out to be 1 of Riperton'south all-time-selling albums. Included were the rock-soul canticle "Reasons"; the second unmarried, "Take a Little Trip" (written past Stevie Wonder, who also coproduced the album); and the 3rd single, "Seeing You This Fashion". Sales of the anthology started out tiresome. Epic was ready to move on to the adjacent record, but Rudolph convinced them to release some other unmarried. With the quaternary single, "Lovin' You", the album caught on, and in April 1975, the song went to the top of the charts in the U.South. and 24 other countries. The song reached no. 2 in the Uk Singles Chart, and number three on the U.S. R&B charts. It sold more than one meg copies, and was awarded a gilt disc by the RIAA in April 1975.^[12] Perfect Affections went gold and Riperton was finally revered as the "lady with the high phonation and flowers in her hair." The album also featured the vocal "Every Time He Comes Around", with Deniece Williams singing the background vocals.

Later career [edit]

Later Perfect Angel, Riperton and her married man, songwriter and music producer Richard Rudolph started on Riperton'southward third album, Adventures in Paradise (1975). Joe Sample of The Crusaders cowrote the title vocal, "Adventures in Paradise", and Crusaders producer Stewart Levine co-produced the album. While shooting a promotional clip for the album, she was attacked by a king of beasts, but was not seriously injured. During an appearance on The Sammy Davis, Jr. Show, she played the footage of the incident for Sammy and her swain guests, including Richard Pryor. The album was a modest success. Despite the R&B hit "Inside My Honey" (a no. 5 U.S. R&B hit, subsequently covered by Trina Broussard, Chanté Moore, and Delilah), the album did non match the success of Perfect Angel. Some radio stations refused to play "Within My Honey" due to the lyrics: "Volition yous come within me?"

Her 4th album for Epic Records, titled Stay in Love (1977), featured another collaboration with Stevie Wonder in the funky disco tune "Stick Together".

In 1978, Richard Rudolph and Riperton'due south attorney Mike Rosenfeld orchestrated a move to Capitol Records for Riperton and her CBS Records catalog. In April 1979, Riperton released her fifth and final album, Minnie. "Retentivity Lane" was a hitting from the album.

Collaborations [edit]

Riperton provided backing vocals on Stevie Wonder's songs "Creepin'" from 1974'south Fulfillingness' First Finale and "Ordinary Pain" from 1976's Songs in the Key of Life. In 1977, she lent her vocal abilities to a track named "Yesterday and Karma", on Osamu Kitajima's album, Osamu.^[13]

Personal life [edit]

Riperton was married to songwriter and music producer Richard Rudolph from Baronial 1970 until her death in July 1979. Together, Riperton and Rudolph had two children; music engineer Marc Rudolph (born 1968) and actress/comedian Maya Rudolph (born 1972), a Saturday Night Live cast member from 2000 to 2007.^{[14] [15]} Maya Rudolph was a child when "Lovin' Yous" was recorded. According to the liner notes from Riperton's Petals compilation CD, the melody to "Lovin' Y'all" was created equally a distraction for Maya when she was a baby so Riperton and Richard Rudolph could spend time together. Well-nigh the end of the unedited "Lovin' Yous", Riperton sings "Maya, Maya, Maya".^[4]

Affliction and death [edit]

On August 24, 1976, Riperton revealed on The Tonight Show that she had undergone a mastectomy due to breast cancer.^[4] At the fourth dimension of her diagnosis, Riperton found out her cancer had already spread to the lymphatic arrangement, and she was given well-nigh six months to alive.^[4] She continued touring in 1977 and 1978, and she became the national spokeswoman for the American Cancer Society's 1978–79 campaign.^[4] During the recording of her final album, Minnie, her cancer progressed to the betoken that she was in a great bargain of hurting.^[4] Extreme lymphedema immobilized her right arm in early 1979. In her final singing appearances on television (most notably on the Mike Douglas Show), her right arm remained in a fixed position during her performances.^[four] About her death, in concert, she changed the finish of "Lovin' Yous", "Maya, Maya, Maya" to "Maya, Maya, Ringo, Maya." Ringo was her nickname for her son, Marc.

Past mid-June, Riperton was confined to bed. She entered Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on July 10. On Thursday, July 12 at 10:00 am, she died in the arms of her husband. That Sunday, following a funeral service attended by more than five hundred mourners, Riperton was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Her epitaph is the opening line of her most famous song: "Lovin' you is easy 'cause you're beautiful".

Posthumous releases [edit]

Afterwards Riperton died, several artists contributed vocals to tracks she had recorded before her expiry, to assistance compile Richard Rudolph's concluding tribute to his wife, Love Lives Forever. Included, among others, were Peabo Bryson, Michael Jackson, and Stevie Wonder. Riperton's last unmarried, "Give Me Time," was released in 1980. Richard Rudolph wrote the song, "Now That I Take Yous" for her, but she never got the gamble to record it; he gave the song to Teena Marie, who recorded information technology (and co-produced information technology with Rudolph) on Marie's second LP, Lady T. Finally, in 1981, Capitol Records released The Best of Minnie Riperton, a greatest hits collection. The "new" song on the album was a remake of Joni Mitchell'southward "A Adult female of Eye and Listen," which was a holdover from the Minnie sessions. Also included were an alternate mix of "Memory Lane"; live versions of "Can Yous Feel What I'thousand Maxim," "Lover And Friend," and "Young, Willing, and Able"; and two "Moments with Minnie." It too included the hits "Perfect Angel," "Lovin' You," "Inside My Dear," "Adventures In Paradise," and two tracks from Love Lives Forever: the single "Hither We Get" (a duet with Peabo Bryson),^[16] and the song "You Take My Breath Away." During the 1990s, Riperton's music was sampled past many rap and hip-hop artists, including Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, A Tribe Called Quest, Blumentopf, The Orb and Tragedy Khadafi.^[4]

Song ability [edit]

Riperton had a coloratura soprano vocal range.^[17] Aside from her various hits, she is perhaps best remembered today for her power to sing in high head vox (occasionally the whistle annals which is often mistakenly dislocated with the former), in which she had rare facility.^[18] She is known as The Nightingale, and a Songbird. Her rare ability to enunciate in the high registers set her autonomously from most other whistle-register singers. This feature is most notably heard in the song "Hither Nosotros Get" (a duet with Peabo Bryson),^[16] where she sings "here nosotros go" in the whistle register. Whistle-register enunciation can also be heard in songs such as "Inside My Love", "Adventures in Paradise", "Expecting", "Just When I'm Dreaming", and also in "Teach Me How to Fly" and "Like a Rolling Stone" with the Rotary Connection.

Riperton was also noted for her ability to audio almost mechanical or instrumental in the loftier head vocalisation and whistle. In "You Take My Breath Away", she sang a portamento ending ii octaves higher up the staff. She has also been credited for her power to sustain notes in the sixth and 7th octave for long periods, as in "Reasons", "Could It Be I'g in Love", "Adventures in Paradise", and "Inside My Beloved", and also "Honey Me At present" with the Rotary Connection. Having an innate ability to imitate many instruments helped lead to Riperton's discovery while she was a secretary at Chess Records.

In her recordings, Riperton's highest recorded annotation reached in the whistle register was F_vii on the tertiary scale of "You Take My Breath Away".^{[ commendation needed ]} Riperton reached this extremely high note before on an early recording of "Teach Me How to Wing" and "Could It Be I'grand in Love". Likewise in a live functioning of the vocal "Ruby Tuesday" from Rotary Connection, she sang an F ♯ ₇. In the song "Lovin' You" she sings a walkdown on the A major scale from F ♯ ₆ to A_v. Mariah Carey cited Riperton equally an influence on her.^[xix]

Documentary and tributes [edit]

Stevie Wonder paid tribute to Riperton during an episode of the Idiot box evidence Soul Train, which aired shortly after her death in September 1979.^[20] She was besides mentioned prominently in his song "Positivity" on A Time to Love (2005).

On June vii, 2009, Television Ane (The states TV network'due south) Unsung serial premièred a one-hour documentary on Riperton'due south career and life. It included interviews with her husband Richard, son Marc, girl Maya, sis Sandra Riperton, and many others who worked with her.^[4]

Vocalizer Julia Fordham's song 'Roadside Affections' is a biographical tribute to Riperton.

Singer Kate Bush referenced Riperton ("How-do-you-do Minnie") in a lyric of "Blow Away", a track on her 1980 album Never for Always. The song also references several other musicians who had recently died.

Hip-hop trio Salt-N-Pepa included an illustration of a spiritual Riperton alongside Billie Holiday, Jimi Hendrix, and Louis Armstrong on the cover of their 1990 album Blacks' Magic.

Discography [edit]

Studio albums [edit]

Yr	Title	Top nautical chart positions					Certifications	Record label
		US [21]	The states R&B [21]	AUS [22]	CAN [23]	UK [24]
1970	Come to My Garden	160	—	—	—	—		GRT
1974	Perfect Angel	iv	one	17	8	33	RIAA: Golden[25]	Epic
1975	Adventures in Paradise	eighteen	5	54	55	—
1977	Stay in Dearest	71	xix	—	80	—
1979	Minnie	29	v	60	—	—		Capitol
1980	Beloved Lives Forever	35	11	—	—	—
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Compilation albums [edit]

Year	Title	Peak positions		Record label
		US [21]	US R&B [21]
1981	The Best of Minnie Riperton	203	59	Capitol
1993	Gold: The All-time of Minnie Riperton	—	—
1997	Her Chess Years	—	—	Chess
2001	Petals: The Minnie Riperton Drove	—	—	The Right Stuff
	Les Fleurs: The Minnie Riperton Anthology	—	—	EMI
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was non released in that territory.

Singles [edit]

Twelvemonth	Title	Peak chart positions							Certifications	Album
		Usa [26]	Usa R&B [27]	US A/C [28]	US Dance [29]	AUS [22]	CAN [23]	UK [24]
1972	"Les Fleurs"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—		Come to My Garden
1974	"Reasons"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—		Perfect Angel
	"Seeing You This Way"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1975	"Lovin' You lot"	1	iii	4	—	five	3	ii	RIAA: Gold[25] BPI: Silver[xxx]
	"Inside My Honey"	76	26	—	—	—	—	—		Adventures in Paradise
	"Unproblematic Things"	—	70	45	—	—	—	—
1976	"Adventures in Paradise"	—	72	—	—	—	—	—
1977	"Stick Together (Part One)"	—	57	—	23	—	—	—		Stay in Love
	"Wouldn't Matter Where You lot Are"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	"Young Willing and Able"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1979	"Retentivity Lane"	—	16	—	—	—	—	—		Minnie
	"Lover and Friend"	—	20	—	—	—	—	—
1980	"Here We Become" (with Peabo Bryson)	—	14	—	—	—	—	—		Honey Lives Forever
	"Give Me Time"	—	75	—	—	—	—	—
"—" denotes a recording that did non chart or was non released in that territory.

Accolades [edit]

Grammy Awards [edit]

The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Riperton received a sum of two Grammy nominations.^[31]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Issue
1979	Best Female R&B Vocal Performance	Minnie	Nominated
1980	All-time Female person R&B Vocal Functioning	Love Lives Forever	Nominated

Tours [edit]

• George & Minnie Live! (1976–77)

Riperton joined with established jazz guitarist George Benson, to kicking-off a co-headlining Northward American concert tour. The tour ran from 1976 through the fall of 1977.^{[32] [33]}

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Notes

• On select dates during the tour, Riperton's performance of her hit song "Lovin' You" included a reprise version that featured George Benson.
• Riperton performed "Can You lot Feel What I'one thousand Proverb?" only at select dates during the tour.

Dates

Date	City	Venue
March fifteen, 1977	Los Angeles	Los Angeles Music Middle
May 9, 1977	New York Metropolis, NY	Avery Fisher Hall
July xv, 1977	East Troy, WI	Alpine Valley Music Theatre
July 29, 1977	Edwardsville, IL	Mississippi River Festival
October vii, 1977	Phoenix, AZ	Celebrity Theatre
October 29, 1977	Burlington, VT	Patrick Gymnasium

• Not all North American dates are listed.

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

• Minnie Riperton at AllMusic

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie_Riperton