Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five New York Hip Hop - Music, News, Information and Events - NYC, NY Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:58:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Sylvia Robinson, Sugar Hill Records Co-Founder and ‘Mother of Hip Hop,’ Dead at 75 https://www.birthplacemag.com/2011/09/sylvia-robinson-dies-at-75/ Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:58:39 +0000 http://www.birthplacemag.com/?p=10561 Sylvia Robinson, the singer-turned-record-executive responsible for signing early hip hop icons such as the Sugar Hill Gang and Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five to the masses, has died. She was 75.

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