Maya Rudolph was raised by her father Richard Rudolph after her mother Minnie Riperton died in 1979 Lynsey Eidell is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before gifted singers-songwriters such as Mariah Carey, Ariana Grande, SZA and Lalah Hathaway were murmurs in anyone’s ears, there ...

In 1975, Minnie Riperton had a massive hit with “Lovin’ You.” The song, written by Riperton and her husband, Richard Rudolph and co-produced by Stevie Wonder for the album Perfect Angel, hit No. 1 on ...

Stevie Wonder is on the phone recounting the experience — trying to recount the experience — of recording “Lovin’ You” half a century ago with his friend, the late Minnie Riperton. “We were down at ...

"There are just some songs you just don't touch because they're done so well, so like, don't even try," says 24-year-old Moses Sumney. "But I'm going to try." On Saturday night under the stars in ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A new memoir by a Philadelphia journalist tells the story of Minnie Riperton, a popular 1970's soprano turned breast cancer advocate. Sheila Simmons was just a little girl when ...

I was a little kid in 1975, when I was first introduced to Minnie Riperton via her hit “Loving You” and its major presence on the AM pop-radio stations. I didn’t know that the singer had grown up in a ...

Raekwon reflects on legacy, ownership and why he believes Wu-Tang’s impact on the rap game deserves more recognition. 12 hours ago While performing with Rotary Connection, Riperton, who famously had a ...

Plenty of hit ballads sound a bit like lullabies. "Lovin' You," the only big hit for the art-soul singer Minnie Riperton, actually is a lullaby -- or, at least, that's how it started out. When she and ...