New look, new label, new Jill. Jill Scott blazes back on the scene with a hot new disc, 'The Light of the Sun', which just garnered her her 1st number 1 album on Billboard. Scott has every reason NOT to be back on top. A 2007 divorce from her longtime companion, Lyzel, after six years of marriage. A year later, Scott was engaged to her former drummer, Lil' John Roberts, and carrying her first child, Jett Hamilton Roberts. After her son's birth in 2009, Scott broke up with Roberts. And to add to the stumbling blocks, in 2010 irreconcilable differences arose between Scott and Hidden Beach Recordings, her home for 10 years. In the midst of recording songs for "The Light of the Sun," she was counter sued by Hidden Beach, which claimed she had exited halfway through a six-album contract. The suit was settled earlier this year, with Scott inking a new deal with Warner Bros.
One word captures Jill Scott's vibe of late? "Free."
"That's the word I've been using," Scott says with a laugh.
"It's exciting, because it's on my own terms," Scott says. "I feel like my eyes are going to bulge out of my head. It's like starting all over again. Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden. It's free and alive. And that's where I am."
And this is where she is, sitting at #1 on the Billboard 200 Charts! Jill Scott is 'Golden', and she is doing it on her own terms. Being free and blazing your own new path, you have to love that! Congrats to Jill! The new disc is stellar. A definite must have.
