#CelebritiesRealLife WHO WILL PLAY SYLVIA ROBINSON? Life of Sugar Hill Records' Sylvia Robinson Heading to Big Screen Leland Robinson Sr is the only surviving member of the Robinson family who created the legacy by releasing the 1st Rap record. Hollywood producer Paula Wagner (former producing partner of Tom Cruise) has acquired the film rights to the late Sylvia Robinson’s life story. Robinson, a singer, songwriter and record producer in the 1970s, went on to become a publisher and record company head, and eventually came to be known as “the Mother of Hip-Hop.” Robinson earned the nickname when she produced the Sugar Hill Gang’s iconic 1979 hit ‘Rapper’s Delight’ after co-founding Sugar Hill Records with her husband, Joe Robinson, earlier in the decade. (She had also enjoyed chart success as an artist decades earlier as part of Mickey & Sylvia, who scored with late-‘50s hits like ‘Love Is Strange’ and ‘There Oughta Be a Law.’) She broke ground as one of the few female record producers in the late ‘60s after she and her husband founded All Platinum Records. In addition to founding Sugar Hill Records and masterminding ‘Rapper’s Delight,’ Robinson also signed the legendary group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5, and produced their seminal track ‘The Message’ in 1982. The planned biopic will feature hip-hop music owned by Robinson’s family and administered by Universal Music Publishing Group. (Rights were acquired directly from the family.) Sylvia’s son, Joey Robinson, but since his passing Leland is now in charge. “Sylvia Robinson’s life story has all the elements of a great film,” Wagner said in a statement announcing the project. “It is not only the story of female empowerment at a time when the world of music was male dominated, but it’s also a story of the origin of hip-hop and how this woman’s determination, immense talent and savvy business sense fostered an entire musical movement. ” #SylviaRobinsom #LelandRobinson #SugarhillRecords #RIPJOEROBINSON #RIPSYLVIAROBINSON #RIPJOEYROBINSONJR #RIPRHONDOROBINSON #SUGARHILLGANG #SEQUENCE #GRANDMASTERFLASH #THEFURIOIS5 #CRASHCREW #TheFunky4plus1 @lelandrobinson.nj @claudiajordan
