Biography

Though singer and rapper Lauryn Hill had minor acting roles, it was her second album with the Fugees -- 1996's multi-platinum The Score -- that catapulted her into stardom. Her 1998 solo debut, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, successfully integrated rap, soul, reggae, and R&B into her own sound. Hill wrote, arranged, and produced most of the album, which managed a long reign on the charts. The momentum finally culminated at the 1999 Grammy Awards, during which Hill took home five trophies -- the most for a woman. She was mostly inactive during the next several years, with the deeply personal double-disc MTV Unplugged No. 2.0 appearing in 2002. ~ Brian Raftery

Top Tracks

• Click on the track to launch in Spotify

• Doo Wop (that Thing)

• Everything Is Everything

• Ex-factor

• Nothing Even Matters

Discography

• Click on the album to launch in Spotify

• MTV Unplugged No. 2.0

  Ruffhouse

  2002

• The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

  Columbia / Ruffhouse

  1998