>she actually answered this somewhere and said Minnie
>Riperton
>

Thats interesting because when my wife and i first listened to the Beautifully Human record i said to her...'you know in spots she sounds like Minnie.'

...in certain tunes her voice definitely takes on a Minnie-esque vibe i remember from the Adventures in Paradise / Perfect Angel era. Some of the themes and phrasing and 'vibes' are similar too. Jill's definitely got her OWN thing going too of course, but when those Minnie moments happened they were SO 'Minnie' sounding i remembered wondering if Jilly was a Minnie fan (hard not to be a fan of those two records at least isn't it?) and i wondered if she did it intentionally as sort of a tribute to Minnie or something.