| Milira | |
| Birth Name: | Milira Jones |
| Alias: | Milira |
| Birth Date: | 27 September 1969 Hollis, New York, U.S. |
| Origin: | Manhattan, New York, US |
| Genre: | R&B, soul |
| Occupation: | Singer |
| Years Active: | 1990 - present |
| Label: | Motown Records |
Milira Jones (born September 27, 1969), better known as Milira, is an American R&B/soul singer born in Hollis, New York. She released two albums in the 1990s and had four charting singles on Billboard's R&B singles chart, with two peaking top 40.
Milira Jones was born in Hollis, New York. She won amateur night at the Apollo Theater in the late 1980s, which led to a recording contract with Apollo Records, a label distributed through Motown Records.[1] Jones was influenced by jazz musician Sarah Vaughn.[1]
Prior to signing with Motown, Jones released her debut album on June 15, 1990, Milira. Her debut album spent 42 weeks on the Billboard R&B albums chart, reaching number 29. It scored two top 40 R&B singles, "Go Outside in the Rain" (#36) and a cover version of Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" featuring Noel Pointer (#21).[2]
On June 9, 1992, Milira released her follow-up album, Back Again!!! and two songs from the album charted on Billboard's R&B singles chart, "One Man Woman" (#45) and "Three's a Crowd" (#94).[2] Jones released her third album titled, Solution which was Christian and gospel themed with a mixture of R&B and Soul and also it was released under her own personal record label, Arilim Records and the CD album was released on September 12, 2000.
| Album details | Peak chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US R&B [3] | |||
| Milira |
| 29 | |
| Back Again |
| 81 | |
| Solution |
| — | |
| No Mo Pain |
| — |
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US R&B | UK [4] | ||||||
| "Waiting Here for You" | 1990 | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | Milira | |
| "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" | align=center | 21 | align=center | 87 | |||
| "Go Outside in the Rain" | align=center | 36 | align=center | ― | |||
| "One Man Woman" | 1992 | align=center | 45 | align=center | ― | Back Again | ! |
| "Three's a Crowd" | align=center | 94 | align=center | ― | |||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||||||