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Mahalia Jackson, a singer with one of the finest voices in this history of gospel music, did full justice to this joyous spiritual from 1927. Her moving version even reached the 1958 Billboard charts, a strong showing for a gospel single at the time when Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and ...
On this soulful, mellow track, British R&B singer Mahalia reflects on her journey and expresses gratitude for love and the experiences that come with it. Through lyrics like "If I never had to cry, I would never learn to fight" and "I needed to fall so I could get st...
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“Both my parents sang: my father had his own quartet while my mother had her own gospel group. They would rehearse with both groups at home and there was always a piano close by so music was always right there in the household. My mother – who was a big fan of Mahalia Jackson’s...
Mahalia Jackson: Young Gospel SingerMontrew Dunham
(father ofsoul musicsingerAretha Franklin), who issued more than 70 albums of his sermons and choir afterWorld War II. Important women in the Black gospel tradition have includedRoberta Martin, a gospel pianist based in Chicago with a choir and a school of gospel singing;Mahalia Jackson, who ...