Biography
Stephanie Dorthea Mills (born March 22, 1957) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. She rose to stardom as Dorothy Gale in the original seven-time Tony Award winning Broadway run of the musical The Wiz from 1974 to 1979. The song "Home" from the show later became a Number 1 U.S. R&B hit and her signature song. During the 1980s, she had five Number 1 R&B hits, including "Home", "I Have Learned to Respect the Power of Love", "I Feel Good All Over", "(You're Puttin') A Rush on Me" and "Something in the Way (You Make Me Feel)". She won a Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for her song "Never Knew Love Like This Before" in 1981. Her albums What Cha Gonna Do with My Lovin, Sweet Sensation and Stephanie went gold or platinum, all through 20th Century Fox Records. In 2025, Billboard named her one of the "75 Best R&B singers of All Time".
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
It Was Written
1996
Savage Mode II
2020
The Great Depression
2001
TP
1980
As Raw As Ever
1991
The Wiz (The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard Of Oz")
1975
Legal Drug Money
1996
Handel's Messiah (A Soulful Celebration)
1992
Soul Exposed
1990
Heritage
1990
Something In The Way (You Make Me Feel)
1989
Stephanie Mills The Collection
1999
If I Were Your Woman
1987
I've Got The Cure
1984
Credited work
529 releases · 90 albums · active 1975–2025
- Performance · 878
- Production · 227
- Other credits · 102
- Engineering · 4
Studios: Sigma Sound Studios · Sigma Sound Studios, New York · Larrabee Sound Studios · Mama Jo's
Frequent collaborators
- Tom Jones
- Various
- Teddy Pendergrass
- Robert Brookins
- J.T. Taylor
- DMX
- George Duke
- Melba Moore