It's an understatement to say that Jill Scott has had a successful music career; she's been more than successful, with three Grammy wins on top of 14 Grammy nominations (via Grammy). Her accomplished career took off soon after she dropped her first album "Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1" in 2000. This album earned Scott her first three Grammy nominations and popularized her soulful, poetic voice in the R&B genre.
This early triumph was only the beginning for Scott. Over the years, she's released a total of seven albums, each one critically acclaimed. Fellow R&B star Erykah Badu said of Scott and her music: "Her music takes me back to the grass roots. It's simple, whimsical, very dreamy. ... She makes me cry. She makes me feel me" (via Rolling Stone). Rapper Tyler, the Creator also expressed his appreciation for Scott and her first album when he tweeted in 2020: "20 years ago this album flooded my ears, being the soundtrack for that summer and shaping my ears into what they are now. I hold this body of work very close to me" (via Twitter).
Despite it all, Scott has stayed humble. In fact, she doesn't identify much with fame at all. "I'm not a celebrity," she said in an interview with Jamele Hill (via YouTube). "I know what I've done. But I don't feel that way in my heart. I feel like I'm an artist."
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