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Jill Scott
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American singer, songwriter, model, poet and actress
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 16
Top works
- Thinking and practicing reconciliation
- Diabetes : Diabetes Prevention and Information Guide
- Don't Forget : You're Still Alive
- Poetics of Forgiveness
- Moments, the Minutes, the Hours
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Film & TV
Acting · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Jill Heather Scott (born April 4, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter, model, poet, and actress. Her 2000 debut album, Who Is Jill Scott?: Words and Sounds Vol. 1, went platinum and the follow-ups Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 (2004) and The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3 (2007) both achieved gold status. Scott made her film debut in 2007 in Hounddog and Tyler Perry's Why…
Known for
- Football Fantastics — Jill Scott2025
- Outlaw Johnny Black — Maw Belle2023
- Highway to Heaven — Angela Stewart2021
- The Weakest Link — Self - Contestant2021
- Abbott Elementary — Jill Scott2021
- Blankety Blank — Self - Panellist2021
- VERZUZ — Self2020
- Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices2020
- Tamron Hall — Self2019
- First Wives Club — Hazel Rachelle2019
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1972
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 934,604
- Total plays
- 15,293,557
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Jill Heather Scott (born April 4, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter, model, poet, and actress. She gained recognition with her 2000 debut album, "Who Is Jill Scott?: Words and Sounds Vol. 1", which was certified platinum. Her subsequent albums, "Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2" (2004) and "The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3" (2007), were both certified gold. She released her fourth album, "The Light of the Sun", in 2011, followed by "Woman" in 2015, and her sixth album, "To
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.
· 2003 · cited 65,144x
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 47,865x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,734x
- Going deeper with convolutions
· 2015 · cited 32,540x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,753x
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Quotes
- “And then can I have the naked chef David Beckham?”
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Key facts
- Born
- Jill Heather Scott , ( 1972-04-04 ) April 4, 1972 (age 54) , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Genres
- R&B soul neo soul hip hop spoken word jazz
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter actress
- Years active
- 1998–present
- Labels
- Hidden Beach (2000–2010) Blues Babe/ Warner Bros. (2011–2013) Atlantic (2014–present)
- Spouses
- Lyzel Williams ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2001 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2007 ) Mike Dobson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2016 ; separated</span>"}]]}'>sep. 2017 )
- Website
- missjillscott .com
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.jillscott.com
- Image
- JillScott.jpg
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- Commons category
- Jill Scott (vocalist)
- date of birth
- 1972-04-04
- start of work period
- 1999-00-00
- social media followers
- 1780379
- affiliation string
- True Voice
Sources (8)
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Jill Scott, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Jill Heather Scott (born April 4, 1972) is an American singer. Her 2000 debut album, Who Is Jill Scott?: Words and Sounds Vol. 1, went platinum and the follow-ups Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 (2004) and The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3 (2007) both achieved gold status.
Scott made her film debut in 2007 in Hounddog and Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?. In 2008, she starred in the BBC/HBO series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, based on the novels of the same name by Alexander McCall Smith. After a four-year hiatus from music, Scott released her fourth album, The Light of the Sun, in 2011. In 2014, she starred in the film Get on Up as Deidre "Dee Dee" Jenkins, the second wife of James Brown. In 2015, she released her fifth album, Woman. Beginning in 2018, Scott appeared in The CW DC Comics superhero series Black Lightning as Lady Eve. She released her sixth album, To Whom This May Concern, in February 2026.