While working two jobs she studied secondary education. Īfter graduating from the Philadelphia High School for Girls, Scott attended Temple University. Jill Scott's maternal ancestry has been traced to the Jola people of Guinea-Bissau. She recalls her happy childhood saying she was a 'very much a loved child'.

She grew up an only child in a North Philadelphia neighborhood, raised by her mother, Joyce Scott and her grandmother. Scott was born on April 4, 1972, in Philadelphia. Beginning in 2018, Scott appeared in The CW DC Comics superhero series Black Lightning as Lady Eve. In 2015, she released her fifth album, Woman. In 2014, she starred in the film Get on Up as the second wife of James Brown. After a four-year hiatus from music, Scott released her fourth album, The Light of the Sun, in 2011. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, based on the novels of the same name by Alexander McCall Smith. In 2008, she starred in the BBC/HBO series The No. Scott made her film debut in 2007 in Hounddog and Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?. 2 (2004) and The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 1, went platinum and the follow-ups Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol.

Her 2000 debut album, Who Is Jill Scott?: Words and Sounds Vol. Jill Heather Scott (born April 4, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter, model, poet and actress.

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