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Fact #25903

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Sylvia Robinson, perhaps best-remembered as one half of hitmaking R'n'B duo Mickey And Sylvia, dies aged 76 of congestive heart failure at the Institute of Neuroscience in Secaucus, New Jersey, USA. Robinson also co-founded Sugar Hill Records and was instrumental in bringing rap to mainstream audiences with such releases on the label as Rapper's Delight and The Message.