Founder of Sugar Hill Records and hip-hop pioneer, Sylvia Robinson has died aged 75. No mean artist herself she had a singing career spanning 3 decades including chick flick favourite 'Love Is Strange' in the late 1950s and a proto-disco song 'Pillow Talk' in 1973 that was a huge influence on Donna Summer's 'Love To Love You Baby'.
Inspired by seeing Lovebug Starski perform in a New York club she and her husband Joe set up Sugarhill Records, pulled in Big Bank Hank, Wonder Mike and Master Gee, produced Rapper's Delight and history was made. She also co-wrote the Message and White Lines, such was her influence on hip-hop's first major commercial successes.
Here she is, performing Pillow Talk on Soul Train back in the day. What an outfit.
And of course, THAT song, in full.
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