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Minnie Riperton

American singer and songwriter
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youngest child of rhythm-and-blues singer-songwriter Minnie Riperton and record producer Richard Rudolph. Riperton’s hit song “Lovin’ You,” which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1975, was written by Riperton and Richard Rudolph as a lullaby for their daughter—as the song fades out, repetitive la, las and


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youngest child of rhythm-and-blues singer-songwriter Minnie Riperton and record producer Richard Rudolph. Riperton’s hit song “Lovin’ You,” which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1975, was written by Riperton and Richard Rudolph as a lullaby for their daughter—as the song fades out, repetitive la, las and


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