mahalia jackson

     

This New Orleans-born gospel singer <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-05-24_J_04.jpg" target="_blank">seen here</a> debuted at Carnegie Hall in 1950

Trivia about mahalia jackson

  • "The World's Greatest Gospel Singer", she sang at President Kennedy's inauguration & Martin Luther King's funeral
  • Fittingly, in 1962 this female singer won the first gospel Grammy
  • This Queen of Gospel Music was brought up in a pious family & refused to sing anything but religious songs
  • Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey wrote "Peace In The Valley" with this contralto, the Gospel Queen, in mind