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Melissa Arnette Elliott (born July 1, 1971), better known under her stage name Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Elliott embarked on her music career with all-female R&B group group Sista in the early 1990s and later became part of the Swing Mob collective along with childhood friend and producer Timbaland with whom she worked on projects for Aaliyah, 702, Total, and SWV. Following several guest appearances, in 1997, she launched her solo career with the release of her debut album ''Supa Dupa Fly'', which spawned the hit single "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" and "Sock It 2 Me". The album debuted at number three on the ''Billboard'' 200, the highest-charting debut for a female rapper at the time. Her following album ''Da Real World'' (1999), produced the singles "She's a Bitch", "All n My Grill", and the top five hit "Hot Boyz". With the release of ''Miss E... So Addictive'' (2001), ''Under Construction'' (2002), and ''This Is Not a Test!'' (2003) Elliott established an international career and followed with the hits "Get Ur Freak On", "One Minute Man", "4 My People", "Gossip Folks", and "Work It", the latter of which won her a Grammy Award for Best Female Rap Solo Performance, eventually winning five Grammy Awards and selling over 30 million records in the United States. Elliott is the only female rapper to have six albums certified platinum by the RIAA, including one double platinum for her 2002 album ''Under Construction''.〔(RIAA – Gold & Platinum search )〕 Elliott is also known for a series of hits and diverse music videos, including "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)", "Hot Boyz", "Get Ur Freak On", "Work It", and the Grammy award-winning video for "Lose Control." == Early life == Melissa Arnette Elliott was born on July 1, 1971, in Portsmouth, Virginia. She is the only child of mother Patricia, a power-company dispatcher, and father Ronnie, a U.S. Marine.〔 At the age of four in 1975, she wanted to be a performer, although she knew no one took her seriously, because she was always the class clown. While her father was a Marine, the family lived in Jacksonville, North Carolina, in a mobile home.〔 Elliott enjoyed school for the friendships she formed and had little interest in school work. An intelligence test classified her well above average,〔 and she jumped two years ahead of her class.〔 This made her feel increasingly isolated, and she purposely failed all her classes, eventually returning to her previous class.〔 When her father returned from the Marines, they moved back to Virginia, where they lived in extreme poverty.〔 Elliott's childhood was strongly affected by domestic abuse committed by her father. As a child, she refused to stay over at any of her friends' homes for the fear that she would return and find her mother dead.〔 Her father once beat her mother so severely that her shoulders were dislocated. On another occasion, Elliott's father threatened her with a gun.〔 When Elliott was fourteen, she and her mother fled her father by sneaking out under the guise of a normal bus ride; the pair in reality went to a family member's home where their possessions were loaded into a U-Haul truck.〔 Elliott lived with the fear that her father would kill them both for leaving.〔 Elliott and her father occasionally talk, but the singer says she hasn't forgiven him.〔〔 She later stated, "When we left, my mother realized how strong she was on her own, and it made me strong. It took her leaving to realize."〔〔 Elliott graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1990.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Missy Elliott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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