1. Stephanie Dorthea Mills was born on March 22,1957 and is an American singer, songwriter and actress.
21 Facts About Stephanie Mills
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Stephanie Mills rose to stardom as Dorothy Gale in the original seven-time Tony Award winning Broadway run of the musical The Wiz from 1974 to 1979.
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Stephanie Mills began her professional career at age nine, appearing in the Broadway musical Maggie Flynn.
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In 1973, Stephanie Mills was signed to Paramount Records by Michael Barbiero, and her first single "I Knew It Was Love" was released.
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Stephanie Mills was later signed to Motown after being suggested by Suzanne de Passe.
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Stephanie Mills's career took a rise when she portrayed Dorothy in the seven-time Tony Award winning Broadway musical The Wiz, an African-American adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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Stephanie Mills quickly followed the success with 1980's Sweet Sensation, which featured Mills's hit "Never Knew Love Like This Before".
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On May 24,1984, Stephanie Mills returned to theater to star in a short-lived touring revival of The Wiz.
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Stephanie Mills truly returned with her next release, If I Were Your Woman in 1987 under MCA Records, which she was now signed.
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Stephanie Mills released a live gospel recording in 1994 on GospoCentric Records entitled Personal Inspirations.
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Thereafter, Stephanie Mills took a break from recording to care for her son.
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In 1997, Stephanie Mills played the lead in a major production of Stephen Schwartz's Children of Eden in New Jersey, which Schwartz has called "the definitive production" of the show.
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Stephanie Mills made an appearance in the 2007 gospel TV series Sunday Best and was featured in a live interview on The Yolanda Adams Morning Show, where she mentioned that she has her own record label.
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Stephanie Mills made a comeback in independently-releasing Born For This on August 3,2004.
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Towards the end of 2012, Stephanie Mills released a new single "So In Love This Christmas", available for download.
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In 2015, Stephanie Mills was cast as Aunt Em in the NBC live musical production of The Wiz, forty years after her initial Broadway run in the show.
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Stephanie Mills gained media attention in 2018 with her response to singer Sam Smith, who remarked in a video posted to Instagram that they did not like Michael Jackson, but the Jackson hit "Human Nature" was a "decent song".
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In 2021, Stephanie Mills participated in a Verzuz battle with singer Chaka Khan, at which both singers performed hits from their discography.
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In 2024, Stephanie Mills returned to Broadway after forty years as Missus Hermes in the musical Hadestown.
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Stephanie Mills has a son, Farad Stephanie Mills, who was born with Down syndrome.
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Stephanie Mills once had a brief relationship with fellow singer Michael Jackson.