Sylvia Robinson,Pioneering Producer of Hip-Hop, Is Dead at 75
RollingStone.com Sylvia Robinson, the producer of the Sugar Hill Gang’s pioneering hip-hop single “Rapper’s Delight,” died this morning at the age of 75 from congestive heart failure. Robinson, a singer, musician, producer and label executive at Sugar Hill Records, began her career as half of the duo Mickey & Sylvia in the late ’50s, who […]
