The son of hip-hop pioneer Sylvia Robinson sat down with News 12's Naomi Yane to celebrate New Jersey's ties to hip-hop and Robinson's legacy. “Love is Strange” is a late '50s hit song by R&B duo ...

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 from ...

Sylvia Robinson (née Vanderpool; May 29, 1935 – September 29, 2011) was an American singer, record producer, and record label executive. Robinson had two R&B chart toppers: as half of Mickey & Sylvia ...