Thank you, Sylvia Robinson, for your multi-faceted legacy, and the joy it has brought this listener and so many others. Be sure you keep the music alive and "Shake Some More" in heaven.

Robinson’s roots in the record industry were deep. She was a blues singer in the 1950s, recording for Columbia and Savoy Records on songs like “Chocolate Candy Blues.” ...

Sylvia Robinson, who flipped the switch that started turning rap music from a New York street phenomenon into the country's dominant pop music sound, died Thursday morning at Meadowlands Hospital ...

* Sylvia Robinson was a bona fide boss in multiple areas of the music industry, and this EUR Video Throwback will celebrate them all – from her beginnings as a successful recording artist in the ...

Prior to founding Sugar Hill, Robinson was an established singer as part of Mickey & Sylvia. The duo’s songs included 1957 R&B hit “Love Is Strange,” and “There Oughta Be a Law.” ...

Joey Robinson, Sylvia’s son, will executive produce, while music exec Robert Kraft is on board to co-produce.

Sylvia Robinson’s influence over pop music goes back to 1956, when she sang on the #1 hit single “Love is Strange,” with partner Mickey Baker.

Sylvia Robinson, a singer-songwriter who went on to become a pioneer in the hip-hop music business, introducing the seminal “Rapper’s Delight,” died Thursday in New Jersey of congestive ...

Sylvia Robinson died in 2011 at the age of 75. With “Rapper’s Delight,” the Englewood, N.J.-based Sugar Hill was able to claim it had the first rap hit in history.

Sylvia Robinson passed away Thursday. She was a notable producer at a time when few women were. She assembled the music group the Sugarhill Gang and released the 1979 hit, 'Rapper's Delight.' It ...

Sylvia Robinson, a sultry voiced R&B singer who later formed Sugar Hill Records and dreamed up the first commercial hit in the rap genre, died Thursday at a New Jersey hospital. She was 75.

Sylvia Robinson died Thursday in Seacaucus, N.J., according to publicist Greg Walker. She was 76. Along with her late husband, Joe, Robinson was the owner of Sugar Hill Records.