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Stephanie Mills

After a successful career on Broadway, Stephanie Mills reinvented herself as a chart-topping R&B singer, landing a string of crossover hits on the American charts during the late-1970s and 1980s. She was born on March 22, 1957, and grew up in Brooklyn's Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood, where she began singing at Cornerstone Baptist Church. She became a Broadway actress at age 9, appearing in Maggie Flynn alongside fellow child star Irene Cara, who would later co-write and perform the 1983 hit "Flashdance… What a Feeling." Starting in 1974, Mills began a five-year run as Dorothy i...