Stephanie Mills

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Stephanie Dorthea Mills (born March 22, 1957) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. She gained prominence for her role as Dorothy Gale in the original Broadway production of the musical "The Wiz" from 1974 to 1979. The song "Home" from the show later became a number one U.S. R&B hit and is considered her signature song. During the 1980s, Mills had five number one R&B hits, including "Home", "I Have Learned to Respect the Power of Love", "I Feel Good All Over", "(You're Puttin') A Rush on Me", and "Something in the Way (You Make Me Feel)". She won a Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for "Never Knew Love Like This Before" in 1981. Her albums "What Cha Gonna Do with My Lovin'", "Sweet Sensation", and "Stephanie" achieved gold or platinum status through 20th Century Fox Records. In 2025, Billboard named her one of the 75 best R&B singers of all time. Mills was born to Joseph and Christine Mills and raised in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She sang gospel music as a child at Brooklyn's Cornerstone Baptist Church. She began her professional career at age nine in the Broadway musical "Maggie Flynn" and won Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater six weeks consecutively at age eleven. She later opened for the Isley Brothers. Mills released her first single, "I Knew It Was Love", with Paramount Records in 1973 and was later signed to Motown, where her first two albums did not produce hits. Her career advanced when she portrayed Dorothy in "The Wiz", and her p

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The Best Of Stephanie Mills

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What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin'

If I Were Your Woman

Feel The Fire: The 20th Century Collection

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Ultimate Collection

Stephanie Mills Greatest Hits: 1985-1993

20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Stephanie Mills

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