Mary J. Blige

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 6 September 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The groundbreaking career of Mary J. Blige is all the more impressive when you consider she escaped a troubled childhood in the projects of Yonkers, New York and was discovered while doing karaoke at a local mall. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist talks to the Grammy winner about her journey since then including her debut album “What’s the 411?,” the new music she’s been writing during quarantine and her latest venture into the world of wine.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.3	My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.
0:09.3	We got a brand new virtual conversation for you today and man am I fired up about this
0:14.5	one.
0:15.5	Growing up in high school in 1992 and three junior and senior years, Mary J. Blige, may
0:23.4	I just say, was my jam.
0:25.4	She was my favorite.
0:26.6	I was dating a young lady at the time named Christina Sharky.
0:29.7	I made her Mary J. Blige mix tapes and now we're married happily with two children.
0:35.1	So Mary J. it's a huge assist on my entire life.
0:39.1	She's huge.
0:40.1	She's big for me.
0:41.1	So I finally got a chance to interview her sit down with her.
0:43.9	Not exactly the way I would have drawn it up because we're in our respective backyards
0:48.1	sitting outdoors.
0:49.8	But we are drinking a little wine.
0:51.5	I should point out it's the morning.
0:53.3	Not gonna lie about that a little bit before noon.
0:56.0	She has a line of wines called Sun Goddess Wines that are now out.
1:00.9	So we opened a bottle of each.
1:02.8	There's a rosé and a Sauvignon Blanc.
1:06.8	And you know what we did?
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