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Milira Jones (born September 27, 1969), better known as Milira, is an American R&B/soul singer born in Hollis, New York. She released two albums in the 1990s and had four charting singles on Billboard's R&B singles chart, with two peaking top 40.

Biography

Milira Jones was born in Hollis, New York. She won amateur night at the Apollo Theater in the late 1980s, which led to a recording contract with Apollo Records, a label distributed through Motown Records. Jones was influenced by jazz musician Sarah Vaughn.

Music career

Prior to signing with Motown, Jones released her debut album on June 15, 1990, Milira. Her debut album spent 42 weeks on the Billboard R&B albums chart, reaching number 29. It scored two top 40 R&B singles, "Go Outside in the Rain" (#36) and a cover version of Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" featuring Noel Pointer (#21).

On June 9, 1992, Milira released her follow-up album, Back Again!!! and two songs from the album charted on Billboard's R&B singles chart, "One Man Woman" (#45) and "Three's a Crowd" (#94). Jones released her third album titled, Solution which was Christian and gospel themed with a mixture of R&B and Soul and also it was released under her own personal record label, Arilim Records and the CD album was released on September 12, 2000.

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

1. ^ "Milira Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography". Music VF. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
2. ^ Carpenter, Bill. "Artist Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1999). Joel Whitburn's Top R&B Albums, 1965–1998 (illustrated ed.). Record Research. p. 139. ISBN 9780898201345.
4. "MILIRA – full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved April 10, 2022.

External links

• Milira discography at Discogs

• 1969 births
• Living people
• 20th-century African-American women singers
• 20th-century American women singers
• 20th-century American singers
• American women singers
• American contemporary R&B singers
• 21st-century African-American musicians
• 21st-century African-American women