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Sylvia Robinson was an American singer and record producer who founded and ran Sugar Hill Records, the pioneering hip hop label. Several publications have called her the Mother of Hip Hop, and she produced both "Rapper's Delight" and "The Message".
Sylvia Robinson produced "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang in 1979 and "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five in 1982. She also produced earlier records, including Joe Jones's "You Talk Too Much" in 1960 without receiving credit.
Sylvia Robinson's biggest solo hit was "Pillow Talk" in 1973, billed simply as Sylvia. It reached number one on the R&B chart, number three on the Billboard Hot 100, and number fourteen on the UK Singles Chart.
Sylvia Robinson was born on the 29th of May 1935 in Harlem, New York. She died on the 29th of September 2011 at the age of 76 at Meadowlands Hospital in Secaucus, New Jersey, of congestive heart failure.
Sylvia Robinson was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022 in the Ahmet Ertegun Award category. She is the first woman to receive that award unaccompanied by another person.
Sylvia Robinson co-founded Sugar Hill Records, named after the Sugar Hill area of Harlem. She had earlier founded All Platinum Records and later formed Bon Ami Records in 1987 after Sugar Hill folded in 1985.