Jill Scott

Jill Scott is from Philadelphia, where she studied to be an English teacher at Temple University. She became friends with other musicians in the area who helped launch her career, including DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Roots.

She met her first husband, a DJ named Lyzel Williams, when she was doing a poetry reading in the early '90s. They tied the knot in 2001 and divorced in 2007 after nearly six years of marriage.

She toured with Sting in the summer of 2001 but missed the first two weeks when she came down with a lung infection.