Nearly 50 years later, the song's breathtaking vocal performance still stands out ...

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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 ...

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Fifty years on from Riperton’s biggest album, Perfect Angel, we look back at the joyous, octave-jumping oeuvre that turned her from backing singer to pop star Like Motown’s Martha Reeves and Syreeta ...

With one of the highest registers in soul, Minnie Riperton was among the most impressive vocalists of the 1970s. Her small, but impactful catalog in that decade, full of angelic hits like “Lovin’ You, ...

38 Spesh previously claimed the Yonkers legend was afraid to record with him. 6 hours ago While performing with Rotary Connection, Riperton, who famously had a five‐and‐a‐half octave vocal range, met ...

The otherwise forgettable Minnie Riperton Apartments (yes, she of “Lovin’ You” fame) uses art to draw the eyes up.

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 ...