Singer Lauryn Hill given 3-month sentence for tax evasion.

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA (REUTERS) -  A U.S. judge sentenced Grammy-winning hip hop artist Lauryn Hill to three months in prison, three months in home confinement and a $50,000 (USD) fine on Monday (May 6) for federal tax evasion.

On the eve of her scheduled sentencing, Hill paid off the balance of at least $504,000 in federal back taxes plus state taxes and penalties that brought the estimated total to more than $900,000, her attorney said on Sunday.

In April, a U.S. magistrate judge had admonished Hill for failing to make promised payments on her unpaid taxes ahead of her sentencing.

She had expected to raise the money from a new recording contract last fall but only paid $50,000 when she did not complete the expected tracks, her attorney said.

A new single by Hill, her first in several years, called "Neurotic Society," was posted on iTunes on Friday.

"Here is a link to a piece that I was 'required' to release immediately, by virtue of the impending legal deadline," her Tumblr page said on Saturday.

Hill's 1998 solo album "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" won the singer, a former member of the Fugees, five Grammy awards.

Hill is from South Orange, New Jersey. She was sentenced at U.S. District Court inNewark, New Jersey.