star and singerDella Reesehas died at age 86.Peoplemagazine confirmed that Reese passed away on Sunday (Nov. 19) following years of health struggles related to diabetes. A TV star as well as a gospel and jazz performer, Reese began her career in the late 1950s, working with gospel great ...
The article features African American singer Della Reese, who collapsed while performing as a guest on "The Tonight Show" on October 3, 1979. The physicians had determined that Reese has sustained a rupture aneurysm, a bubble-like defect in an artery, which had burst in the right portion of...
Della Reese formed her own gospel group, the Meditation Singers. However, due in part to the death of her mother and her father’s serious illness, Reese had to interrupt her schooling at Wayne State University to help support her family. Faithful to the memory of her mother, Delloreese mo...