One of America's finest purveyors of raunchy, red-hot soul music, Millie Jackson
was born Mildred Virginia Jackson (July 15th, 1944) in Thompson, Georgia and
raised in New York City, initially living in Newark, New Jersey before settling
in Brooklyn in her mid-teens. She first drew attention to her voice after
winning a talent contest in Harlem in 1964 and found fame with the 1971
breakthrough single "A Child of God (It's Hard to Believe)," which was gospel by
name but certainly not by nature. The track reached number 22 on the R&B chart
and secured her fate as a vital new voice ...