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	Mahalia Jackson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mahalia Jackson (October 26, 1911–January 27, 1972) was an American gospel singer, widely regarded as the best in the history of the genre.
		Jackson's career in the late 1950s and early 1960s continued to rise when she recorded with Percy Faith, and performed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival and the inauguration of John F. Kennedy.
		Jackson died in Chicago, Illinois on January 27, 1972 of heart failure and diabetes, at the age of 60.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mahalia_Jackson (441 words)

	Mahalia Jackson
		Mahalia Jackson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 26, 1911 or 1912, and died of heart failure in Chicago on January 27, 1972.
		Jackson's real ambition after arriving in Chicago was to become a nurse; however, she worked as a laundress and studied beauty culture at Madame C.
		Among the friends of Mahalia Jackson were most of her contemporaries in the gospel music field: Roberta Martin, Sallie Martin, Willie Mae Ford Smith, J. Robert Bradley, Robert Anderson, officials of Thomas A. Dorsey's gospel music convention, including the Ward Singers, and Rosetta Tharpe.
	www.edwardsly.com /jacksonm.htm (1569 words)

	Biography - Mahalia Jackson (Bio 98) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		General critical consensus holds Mahalia Jackson as the greatest gospel singer ever to live; a major crossover success whose popularity extended across racial divides, she was gospel's first superstar, and even decades after her death remains for many listeners a defining symbol of the music's transcendent power.
		Jackson did not record again until 1946, signing with Apollo Records; although her relations with the label were often strained, the work she produced during her eight-year stay on their roster was frequently brilliant.
		During the 1960s, Jackson was also a confidant and supporter of Dr. Martin Luther King, and at his funeral sang his last request, "Precious Lord"; throughout the decade she was a force in the civil rights movement, but after 1968, with King and the brothers Kennedy all assassinated, she retired from the political front.
	musicbase.h1.ru /PPB/ppb0/Bio_98.htm (823 words)

	Louisiana Leaders: Notable Women in History: Mahalia Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mahalia Jackson was born in poverty on Water Street in New Orleans and became one of the greatest gospel singers of all time, entertaining personal greetings from Queen Elizabeth I and Winston Churchhill, and giving a command performance for the king and queen of Denmark.
		Jackson's first recording was "God Shall Wipe Away All Tears" in 1934 but the one that launched her career was "Move On Up a Little Higher" on the Apollo label which sold over 8 million copies.
		Mahalia Jackson became famous solely through that Black community; when she broke the one million dollar mark in sales the African-American press described her as "the only Negro whom Negroes have made famous".
	www.lib.lsu.edu /soc/women/lawomen/jackson.html (337 words)

	Mahalia Jackson / FemBio: notable women
		Jackson, the granddaughter of a slave, was five years old when her mother died and left her to the care of an aunt, a strict Christian woman.
		Mahalia Jackson had to quit school early to earn money as a laundress, but in 1928 she made her way to Chicago where she hoped for better opportunities than the South offered.
		Mahalia Jackson was married and divorced twice; her husbands were apparently not able to accept her independence and dedication as a serious religious singer in the long run.
	www.fembio.org /women/mahalia-jackson.shtml (655 words)

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		Mahalia Jackson, 60, died January 27, 1972, in Chicago where she lived 45 years and became the greatest single success in gospel music.
		Mahalia, who was the third of six children, was taken to Chicago when she was 16 to live with another aunt, Mrs.
		Mahalia also believed that her singing was a "ransom of gratitude for God delivering me from trials." Among those "trials" was her search for love-a search which ended in divorces from Isaac Hockenhull and Sigmund Galloway.
	www.geocities.com /BourbonStreet/2675/ebony/ebony.html (1734 words)

	MAHALIA JACKSON QUEEN OF GOSPEL MUSIC
		Jackson sang regularly at Chicago's South Side Greater Baptist Church and often collaborated with Thomas Dorsey, the "Father of Gospel Music." Originally a blues musician, Dorsey began to write sacred music early in the century, using the sounds and rhythms of blues and jazz.
		Jackson lent her prestige to the civil rights movement and became a prominent figure in the struggle.
		The story of Mahalia Jackson, the queen of gospel and a symbol of integrity, is the story of an era.
	www.southernmusic.net /mahaliajackson.htm (487 words)

	Mahalia Jackson
		Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, who died in Chicago on January 27 [1972], symbolized through her life and music the pilgrimage of fl people in the United States during the past half century.
		It was not until 1946 that Mahalia, who had recorded her first songs ten years earlier, became nationally recognized; by 1953 she received international acclaim on a European concert tour.
		Mahalia numbered among her most cherished friends from both ends of the theological and political spectrums.
	www.nathanielturner.com /mahaliajackson.htm (440 words)

	Mahalia Jackson
		Mahalia Jackson, with her powerful alto voice and fervent faith, was gospel music's first superstar.
		Although some fl churches were reluctant at first to accept her expressive singing style, Jackson soon became in demand as a soloist.
		In 1937 Jackson added the "i" to her first name, increased her touring and by the end of the decade was finally making her living singing gospel songs, in storefront churches, at tent revivals and in ballrooms.
	members.aol.com /efirpo/jackson.html (593 words)

	PBS - American Roots Music : The Songs and the Artists - Mahalia Jackson
		Mahalia Jackson, The Queen of Gospel Music, was born in New Orleans in 1912 and moved to Chicago at an early age.
		She absorbed the sounds of blues singers Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, but it was the church to whom she pledged her allegiance.
		Jackson died of heart failure in 1972 at age 59.
	www.pbs.org /americanrootsmusic/pbs_arm_saa_mahaliajackson.html (137 words)

	Black History Month Biography- Mahalia Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As a child Mahalia had bowed legs and infected eyes, but besides that she was a very cheerful child.
		Mahalia Jackson got cancer, and in a concert, she fainted onstage.
		Mahalia Jackson died when she was 59 years old, on January 27,1972.
	www.newton.mec.edu /bigelow/classroom/yerardi/blackhistory04/03blackhist04ls2/03blackhist04lsindex.htm (289 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Mahalia Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jackson's real ambition after arriving in Chicago was to become a nurse; however, she worked as a laundress and studied beauty culture at Madame C. Walker's and the Scott Institute of Beauty Culture.
		Among the friends of Mahalia Jackson were most of her contemporaries in the gospel music field: Roberta Martin, Sallie Martin, Willie Mae Ford Smith, J.
		Jackson was not the first, and possible not the finest, gospel singer, but it was largely through her compelling contralto voice and her personality that people of all races throughout the world came to respect gospel music as an idiom distinct from classical fl spirituals (524).
	www.galegroup.com /free_resources/bhm/bio/jackson_m.htm (1954 words)

	Mahalia Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bound together by Mahalia Jackson's profound faith, the slave songs of the past and the popular jazz styles of her present became music that touched a tormented world.
		Mahalia was born October 26, 1911, in New Orleans.
		From the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 until her death in 1972, Mahalia was a prominent fixture of the Civil Rights Movement and sang songs of courage, faith, and hope at most of the great rallies.
	www.mhmin.org /FC/fc-0296MahaliaJ.htm (596 words)

	Mahalia Jackson, new releases 2001
		April marked the 40th anniversary of Mahalia Jackson's history-making first 2-month concert tour of Europe, in which she visited England, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Italy, as well as making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land of Israel.
		The aptly-titled "Mahalia Jackson Recorded In Europe During Her Last Concert Tour" found her accompanied by long-time collaborator Mildred Falls at the piano, "her left hand as solid as the rock of ages," writes j.
		Mahalia Jackson's Columbia recordings, originally produced in the 1950s and '60s by Irving Townsend and George Avakian, were produced for reissue by Grammy-nominated producer Nedra Olds-Neal, and were remastered by Grammy-winner Mark Wilder at Sony Music Studios in New York.
	www.satchmo.com /nolavl/mahalia.html (540 words)

	Gospel Singer, Mahalia Jackson Was Born
		Mahalia Jackson at the May 17, 1957, Prayer Pilgrimage of Freedom in Washington, D.C. Gospel Singer, Mahalia Jackson Was Born
		Mahalia Jackson spent a lifetime singing the sacred songs that she loved.
		Jackson grew up singing gospel at the Plymouth Rock Baptist Church, where her father was a preacher.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/progress/gospel_1 (86 words)

	Mahalia Jackson biography
		FAMILY BACKGROUND: Mahalia was the third child to John A. Jackson, a barber and preacher, and Charity Clark, who died at the age of 25 when Mahalia was four years old.
		Even at a very young age, Mahalia had a booming voice and she would sing hymns and old-time gospel tunes around the house.
		Throughout the 1950s, Mahalia's voice was heard on radio, television and concert halls around the world.
	www.lkwdpl.org /wihohio/jack-mah.htm (550 words)

	Mahalia Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mahalia Jackson, who is considered as the greatest gospel singer ever, was born in a poor section of New Orleans on October 16, 1911.
		At the age of four, Jackson made her debut in the Plymouth Rock Baptist Church Children's Choir.
		At the civil rights march on Washington, DC in 1964, Jackson preceded Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech with the traditional spiritual "I been 'buked and I been scorned".
	jaspella.com /music/artists/jackson_mahalia (154 words)

	32¢ Mahalia Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Her father was a preacher at a small church and Mahalia sang in the church choir as a child, where her love for gospel music blossomed.
		Although Mahalia never sang anything but religious songs primarily for gospel audiences, her syncopated rhythms and singing style appealed to jazz and blues fans as well.
		Mahalia died on January 27, 1972, but continues to be remembered the world over for her passionate and heartfelt interpretations of gospel music.
	www.unicover.com /EA1CAPWD.HTM (461 words)

	Jackson, Mahalia on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		JACKSON, MAHALIA [Jackson, Mahalia], 1911-72, American gospel singer, b.
		Jackson toured abroad and appeared on radio and at jazz festivals, refusing to sing the blues in favor of more hopeful devotional songs.
		Mahalia JACKSON (left) at the funeral for Martin Luther KING Jr.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/j/jacksom1a.asp (584 words)

	Colored Reflections - The Seventies, Mahalia Jackson
		Jackson's aunt was very abusive and Jackson never forgot the beatings she and her brother had to endure.
		Jackson opened a beauty shop and a flower shop, and her husband worked at the post office.
		Jackson took the same pure gospel she had learned as a child to each place she sang.
	www.coloredreflections.com /decades/Decade.cfm?Dec=3&Typ=2&Sty=1&SID=64 (146 words)

	Chicago Park District: Mahalia Jackson Park
		Mahalia Jackson (1911 â“ 1972), was a gospel singer who, during her lifetime, became famous throughout the world for her beautiful warm contralto voice.
		Jackson moved to Chicago with a maternal aunt, Hannah Robinson.
		She went on to record with Apollo Records and Columbia Records who in 1953 billed Jackson as âThe Worldâs Greatest Gospel Singer.â In the 1950âs and 1960âs, Jackson played an important role in the Civil Rights movement.
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	MAHALIA JACKSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Personally, Mahalia Jackson is the most moving interpreter of a gospel song that I have had the honor to listen to.
		According to her birth certificate, Mahalia Jackson was born Mahala Jackson, in New Orleans, on October 26/1911.
		Mahalia just stood there (flat-footed), away from the mike a little, and rocked the place.
	www.island.net /~blues/mahalia.htm (935 words)

	World Book \|\| Mahalia Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972) was the best-known gospel singer in the world.
		Jackson's 1947 recording "Move On Up a Little Higher" sold over 1 million copies and earned her the nickname "The Gospel Queen." By the late 1940's, she was attracting large audiences among the general public.
		The Mahalia Jackson biography, by the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame, provides information about the musician's life and career.
	www.worldbook.com /features/aamusic/html/jackson.htm (170 words)

	Amazon.com: The Essential Mahalia Jackson: Music: Mahalia Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the 1960s Mahalia Jackson threw her support to the great civil rights movements, and she was present at the march on Washington led by Dr. Martin Luther King.
		Jackson was a singer who, in a technical sense, seemed to do almost everything wrong.
		But frankly, almost anything Mahalia Jackson recorded could be considered an essential, so powerful is her work, and this collection is a particularly fine sampling.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000050X27?v=glance (661 words)

	Mahalia Jackson-The world´s greatest Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson-The world´s greatest Gospel singer
		Mahalia Jackson recorded a live session in front of an audience, sitting in the rain, at a time when the term open-air concert wasn´t known.
		Mahalia Jackson started her recording career with two takes on DECCA.
		Mahalia´s first records were issued 1937 under the DECCA Coral label.
	www.geocities.com /BourbonStreet/2675 (2076 words)

	Amazon.ca: Mahalia Jackson: The Voice of Gospel and Civil Rights: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mahalia Jackson follows the life of the renowned singer from her childhood in New Orleans to her success as a world-famous gospel singer who made the music popular through her unique style.
		Everything had started very Spartan for Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972), in New Orleans: She had to scavenge coal from the railroad tracks or collect wood from the river bank after the early death of her mother for the family of her strict aunt Duke.
		In January 1972 Mahalia was treated to a traditional New Orleans funeral.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0766021157 (812 words)

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