Mariah Carey defended her titled of the Queen of Christmas in her Footprint Center concert in Phoenix. It went well beyond ...

Minnie Riperton was born on November 8, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois. She was the daughter of Thelma Inez and Daniel Riperton. Her father worked as a Pullman porter, which was a group of men hired ...

Many great artists have been taken far too young, but the death of Minnie Riperton – whose daughter is actress and comedian Maya Rudolph – from breast cancer at the cruelly early age of 31 cut ...

Coincidentally, Ione Skye, the daughter of the song's writer and ... Sung from the perspective of a flower, Minnie Riperton's ...

The tragic death of 31-year-old Minnie Riperton in 1979 silenced one of soul ... melody of which had previously been recorded and then looped to soothe Riperton and Rudolph's daughter, Maya Rudolph.

Riperton was young when the record was made ... In 2014, in a poignant gesture, Maya and partner Paul Thomas Anderson named their daughter Minnie. As for Davis, he went on to work in advertising ...

Along with many of the stars and hopefuls at Chicago’s 1971 Black Expo, Minnie Riperton waited patiently backstage to approach the blind musician rocking characteristically in his chair.