Chicago singer with a soaring multioctave voice, who scored a major hit with lovin you and had. Minnie riperton was born november 8, 1947, in chicago, illinois, to thelma inez matthews and daniel webster riperton, a pullman porter. Minnie riperton s untimely death from breast cancer in 1979 at the age of 32 robbed the world of one its truly great, truly distinctive voices. The tracks on the set span the gamut of minnies recording career, and have a focus on the kinds of righteous and cosmicallygrooving tracks that minnie could do.
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