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Subject: Sylvia Robinson, pioneer of rap music dies
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/11 at 2:49 pm
Sylvia Robinson, known to many as the mother of hip-hop, has died aged 75.
The former soul singer set up trail-blazing record label Sugar Hill Records in 1979 with her husband Joe.
She produced hip-hop's first commercially successful single, Rapper's Delight, and co-wrote Grandmaster and Melle Mel's anti-drugs anthem White Lines (Don't Do It).
Robinson died of congestive heart failure in New Jersey, said her publicist Greg Walker.
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