(Wednesday, April 22, 2009 – New York, NY) Grammy Award winning singer/actress Jill Scott along with fiancé Jon Roberts welcomed their first child, a beautiful baby boy, Jett Hamilton Roberts into the world at 4:20pm on April 20, 2009. Jett was 7lbs 8oz. Both Jill and Jett are doing well.
Jill Scott appears on the HBO drama series No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency based on the international bestselling novels by Alexander McCall Smith.
USA Today remarks " A Grammy- winning singer, Scott imbues her character with a natural warmth and charm..". Music continues to be Jill’s passion with the release of The Real Thing, the follow up to 2004’s Beautifully Human: Words & Sounds Vol. 2, which she won Best Urban/Alternative Performance for "Cross My Mind". Jill Scott made a huge splash in the music industry when she release the critically acclaimed Who Is Jill Scott?" Words & Sounds Vol. 1, which earned Jill four Grammy nominations, including a Best New Artist nomination. Jill Scott also released the effortlessly cool genre-hopping Collaborations, a compilation of all Jill’s best collaborations, including the Grammy-winning "God Bless The Child" with George Benson and Al Jarreau.
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