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Lauryn Hill made a triumphant return to the Grammy Awards stage on Sunday night, accompanied by the unwavering support of her children. This appearance marked her first at the prestigious event in nearly three decades.
Hill hadn’t graced the Grammys since 1999, a year that was monumental for her career. Her groundbreaking debut album, “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” clinched the Album of the Year award, establishing her as the first hip hop artist to achieve such an honor.
This year’s return, however, unfolded in a completely different context. Hill participated in the in memoriam segment of the 68th Grammy Awards, a heartfelt tribute dedicated to the late music icons Roberta Flack and D’Angelo.
The segment began with a salute to D’Angelo’s influential works. Hill joined forces with artists Lucky Daye, Raphael Saadiq, Anthony Hamilton, and Leon Thomas to perform stirring covers of “Brown Sugar,” “Lady,” and “Devil’s Pie.”
The focus later shifted to Roberta Flack’s music. Hill performed “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and “Where Is the Love,” before closing the tribute with a combined performance of “Feel Like Makin’ Love” and “Killing Me Softly With His Song.” The final moments brought the singer back together with her Fugees bandmate Wyclef Jean.
“Overly blessed I was able to see this live,” Hill’s daughter Sara Marley wrote on her Instagram Stories, sharing photos from the night.
Lauryn Hill recorded her debut solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, while she was pregnant with her first son, Zion.
Becoming a mother during the height of her career sparked controversy at the time, and she later reflected on that experience in the song “To Zion”.
“That song is about the revelation that my son was to me,” Hill said in a 1999 interview with The Guardian. “I had always made decisions for other people, making everybody else happy, and once I had him that was really the first decision that was unpopular for me…And it was the best decision that I could have ever made because I’m the happiest and healthiest that I have ever been.”
In all, Hill is a mother of six. She shares sons Zion, Joshua, and John, and daughters Selah and Sara with Rohan Marley. She welcomed her son Micah in 2021 with an unidentified man.