{"id":23355,"count":1,"description":"Minnie is the fifth and final studio album (not counting a posthumous release the following year) by Minnie Riperton. She died of cancer two months after its release. It was also her first album for Capitol Records.\nWith a new record deal under her belt and a guarantee from the label of priority marketing\/promotion, Minnie went right to work on what would be her final album. With husband Richard Rudolph, Keni St. Lewis, Gene Dozier, Randy Waldman, Marlo Henderson & Bill Thedford contributing songs, the album served as Minnie\u2019s final statement to the music world and fans.\nMinnie brought son, Marc and daughter Maya Rudolph into the studio to sing background on \u201cDancin\u2019 & Actin\u2019 Crazy,\u201d while the tender \u201cLover & Friend\u201d was the perfect ode to her relationship with Richard. Minnie was at her most playful self on her remake of the Doors\u2019 \u201cLight My Fire\u201d, a duet with Jos\u00e9 Feliciano (who had a hit with his own version of this rock classic in 1968). It's been said that the reason we don't...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/minnie\/","name":"Minnie","slug":"minnie","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/23355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=23355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}