We’re getting our first look at Grammy Award-winning singer Mary J. Blige in the hotly-anticipated movie musical Rock of Ages. MJB will be taking the role of Justice Charlier, the owner of a gentlemen’s club, in the film inspired by the hits of the 1980s and adapted from the award-winning Broadway production of the same name.
Adam Shankman’s Rock of Ages — also starring Tom Cruise, Russell Brand, and Alec Baldwin — will open in theaters in Dec. 2012.
The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul is back with new music! R&B queen Mary J. Blige will release a new album — titled My Life II, The Journey Continues — this fall.
The Queen of Hip-Hop/Soul is taking this acting thing seriously — now if only she could get crackin’ on production!
Mary J. Blige has opened up about her upcoming role in a biopic about jazz legend Nina Simone. During an interview with NBC The TODAY Show last week, Blige revealed that producers have held the project up even after she learned French and took acting lessons to master the part.
“They keep pushing it back. It’s not my fault. I’m ready. I went to the acting class, I learned ‘Ne Me Quitte Pas.’ I know all French, whatever — so I’m doing my job.”
Mary J. Blige made headlines over the weekend when the platinum-selling Grammy winner announced that she had received an honorary NYC high school diploma and would be joining Howard University’s Class of 2014 in the fall.
Too bad no one let the folks at the prestigious historically-Black college in on the news. The Washington Post is reporting that MJB’s recent announcement of being accepted into Howard caught the school off guard — because it isn’t true!
Mary J. Blige unveiled her new fragrance, My Life, at the 2010 Essence Music Festival over the Fourth of July weekend.
The fragrance, which is the first celebrity product by the natural skin care company Carol’s Daughter, is named after Blige’s platinum-selling 1994 album. The scent comes in a caramel-colored, heart-shaped bottle and goes on sale on the Home Shopping Network July 31.
Great casting! Mary J. Blige will play legendary singer Nina Simone in Cynthia Mort’s upcoming biopic Nina, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The soul vocalist and civil rights activist was well-known as “The High-Priestess of Soul” between 1950s – 1970s, and best known for her jazz-infused hits, like “My Baby Just Cares for Me”, “I Put a Spell on You,” and “Four Women.”
MJB — who last appeared on the big screen in Tyler Perry’s 2009 film I Can Do Bad All By Myself — will begin filming on Nina next fall.
You can take the girl out of the hood, but can you take the hood out of the girl? Not when your initials are MJB! We hear hip-hop soul queen Mary J. Blige infuriated organisers of a Florida jazz festival on Saturday by making bizarre demands and taking to the stage 90 minutes late, according to a spywitness reports.
