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Former Fugees member Lauryn Hill will make a high profile appearance at this year’s Montreux Jazz Festival organizers announced today (April 2).

Hill will join some of the world’s biggest stars during the 43rd Annual Montreux Jazz festival, which runs from July 3-18 and features 90 concerts and over 1,000 musicians.

Artists such as B.B. King, Herbie Hancock, The Black Eyed Peas, Susan Tedeschi, Soloman Burke Diane Reeves, Steely Dan, The Dave Matthews Band and others will perform during the event.

The festival will also feature a three-day tribute to Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records, who signed reggae legend Bob Marley in 1972.

Hill has five children with Bob Marley’s son Rohan.


Despite selling millions of records with The Fugees and own her own with her hit 1998 album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, the rapper/R&B singer dropped out of the public eye around 2000.


Throughout the past eight years, Hill has made various controversial appearances, including a well publicized event at a 2003 Christmas concert at The Vatican where she criticized priests.

She has sporadically toured, but has been greeted with a chilly reception by fans, who claim Hill is notoriously late for concerts and delivers sub par performances.

According to Reuters, The Montreux Jazz Festival is one of the most respected musical events in all of Europe.

"It's a festival like no other. You don't have to buy a ticket to take advantage, there are lots of free events from noon to five in the morning," festival founder Claude Nobs told Reuters. "Expect the unusual. The unions aren't in charge and a concert finishes when it finishes." he said.

Lauryn Hill will take the stage of the Stravinski Auditorium on July 11.
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As long as she doesn't return like this...



Then it's all good.

God willing I'll be there again this year. Montreux is stunning.

- I wish her the best

Wow,I guess she has stopped releasing new music,huh? It doesn't seem like she will ever release a new album.Oh well,at least we got one amazing album from her ('Miseducation').

MuthaFunka said:

that looks like a Halloween costume from hell!

SoulAlive said:

Or maybe she WAS in hell.

Lauryn is great and all but it's been 11 years since Miseducation. It's amazing people even give a damn anymore.

MuthaFunka said:

Please tell me that this is not for real
[Edited 4/3/09 15:58pm]

MuthaFunka said:

A M E N!!!!!

seeingvoices12 said:

I wish I could. Damn shame, ain't it?

MuthaFunka said:

she looks like she came from a fashion show

"Ronald McDonald: A History in Fashion"

bboy87 said:

And the designer was Bozo.

MuthaFunka said:

Nah Bozo was the president, Ronald designed it too, lol. Bozo just saw potential in it.

Timmy84 said:

so sick of her pretentious i went crazy and religious schtick. just admit you didn't ever find the writers and producers to help you follow up miseducation so you never tried cuz your ego can't take it

MuthaFunka said:

bboy87 said:

I am in tears !!

This seemed to have been her look around 2007

MuthaFunka said:

I've read some reviews of people who visited some shows of her, about 1 or 2 years back. Pictures of her onstage looked like the photo above, and the reviewers noticed that her voice sounded hoarse and damaged.

Homey Don't Play Dat

Shango said:

still doesn't look right to me. i mean she calmed down on the makeup, but i guess with 5 kids, you honestly don't have time to do your hair anyway, right?

badujunkie said:

Shango said:

She's just a hot ass mess all around.

japanrocks said:

She really is quite beautiful, as is her voice.
It's hard to believe she was such the music "darling" who racked up all of those grammy awards. It was a lifetime ago, I guess.

missfee said:

Damn. In that pic, she looks like her Neo Soul sista counterpart...

MuthaFunka said:

Yea, but she looks great in those last 2. I don't mind the wig, just have ya makeup right! & she does, she's gorgeous (when she lets herself be)...

CalhounSq said: