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Hill in 2006, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: Lauryn Noel/Noelle Hill
Place of Birth: East Orange, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of Birth: May 26, 1975
Ethnicity: African-American
Lauryn Hill is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actress. She was a member of hip hop trio The Fugees, with Wyclef Jean and Pras . She is also known as Ms. Lauryn Hill and L. Boogie.
She was born in Newark, the daughter of Valerie and Mal Hill, and was raised in a middle-class family in South Orange, New Jersey. Lauryn six children, five of them, including fashion model and singer Selah Marley and singer and songwriter YG Marley , with her former partner, Jamaican-born entrepreneur and professional football player Rohan Marley . Her nephew is model and actor Isaiah Hill.
Some of Lauryn’s genetic ancestry has been traced to the BiAka/Aka people of the Central African Republic.