Sylvia Robinson, who is being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, was a hit pop/R&B artist -- with Mickey & Sylvia, and solo -- before being a crucial rap pioneer with Sugar Hill Records.

Mickey and Sylvia, studio portrait, L-R Mickey Baker and Sylvia Robinson, studio portrait, USA, 1956. (Photo by Gilles Petard/Redferns) She returned as a solo artist, Sylvia, on 1972’s “Pillow ...

While Sylvia Robinson garnered success as a producer, solo artist and as part of the duo Mickey & Sylvia, she's widely known for single-handedly commercializing hip-hop in the late '70s when the ...

After several hits, Mickey & Sylvia broke up in 1962 when Baker moved to Paris. Two years later, Sylvia married musician Joseph Robinson and moved to Englewood, NJ. They opened an eight-track ...

Born Sylvia Vanderpool in Harlem, Robinson had been a recording star before she was a producer. "Little Sylvia," paired with guitarist Mickey Baker for the act Mickey & Sylvia, had hits like 1957 ...

At Robinson’s suggestion, Sylvia began recording with her guitar teacher, Mickey Baker. In 1956, Mickey & Sylvia’s reworking of Bo Diddley’s “Love Is Strange” became a No. 1 R&B hit and ...

While Sylvia Robinson garnered success as a producer, solo artist and as part of the duo Mickey & Sylvia, she's widely known for single-handedly commercializing hip-hop in the late '70s when the ...

Sylvia Robinson, the R&B and disco performer who became "the mother of hip-hop" with her label Sugar Hill Records, died Sept. 29 in a Secaucus, N.J., hospital. She was 75 and reportedly suffered ...

To celebrate Black History Month and the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, News 12's Naomi Yane sat down with Leland Robinson, the secondborn son to Sylvia and Joe Robinson.