Jazmine Sullivan’s Mother Dead After Battling Breast Cancer

Jazmine Sullivan Reveals Her Mother Passed Away After Battling Breast Cancer

Jazmine Sullivan’s mother Pam passed away this weekend, after a nearly two year long battle with an aggressive form of breast cancer.

In May 2020 Jazmine announced that her mother had been diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer in October 2019.

Pam fought as hard as she could, but eventually she succumb to the disease. May she rest in paradise. As you can imagine, Jazmine is not in a good place right now.

 

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“I don’t have the words yet mommy. So for now I’ll say thank you thank you thank you. Rest now butterfly,” Jazmine wrote in a tribute post on Instagram.

Jazmine is an R&B and soul singer. Born and raised in Philadelphia, her debut album, Fearless was released in 2008. The record topped Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

It spawned four singles, including “Need U Bad” and “Bust Your Windows”, both of which were in the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart; the former became Sullivan’s first and only number one on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

Sullivan has received two Grammy Awards, a Billboard Women in Music Award, two Soul Train Music Awards, three NAACP Image Awards, and two BET Awards over the course of her career. In 2022, Time placed her on their list of the 100 Most Influential People.