‘Mr. Big Stuff’ Singer Jean Knight Reportedly Dead at 80

Jean Knight — most well-known for her hit ‘Mr. Big Stuff’ — has died … this in keeping with stories.

An unattributed press release purporting to be the soul singer and New Orleans native’s obituary is making the rounds on-line — and if it is to be believed … it says JK handed away final Wednesday, though the circumstances surrounding her dying are unclear for now.

Knight’s 1971 track is well her largest declare to fame, however it’s an enormous contribution to music and popular culture. ‘Mr. Big Stuff’ not solely carried out extremely properly on the charts when it got here out — together with 5 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Soul Singles chart, and peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 — however it ended up being featured in quite a few movies and TV reveals.

Only a handful of collection that used ‘MBS’ … ‘Household Man,’ ‘black-ish,’ ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ ‘Everwood’ and ‘The Deuce’ — simply to call a number of. On the film entrance, it bought performed in Will Ferrell’s ‘Semi-Professional.’ Past that … the monitor bought remixed/sampled a ton over time.

A few of that notable acts who flipped this gem … Heavy D & The Boyz, Eazy-E, TLC, Queen Latifah, Everclear, Woman Speak, Beastie Boys and John Legend. ‘Mr. Big Stuff’ had additionally been lined a handful of occasions … famously by Valuable Steel, Lyn Collins and lots of others.

Jean had recorded numerous different songs all through her profession … however none ever reached the success of ‘Big Stuff.’ A few of her different notable singles … “My Toot Toot,” “You Think You’re Hot Stuff,” “Carry On,” “Helping Man,” “Do Me,” “Jesse Joe (You Got to Go)” … and extra.

She was 80.