Mahalia Jackson

Mahalia Jackson was the 1st music artist of any race to win the “Gospel Music or Other Religious Recording” Grammy, by The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences; 1962.

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Al Jarreau

Born Alvin Lopez Jarreau in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sunrise March 12, 1940, sunset February 12, 2017, Los Angeles, California He was a PK, preacher’s kid, his dad was a Seventh Day Adventist minister. He embraced Scientology at one time, but later dissociated himself from it. He was married twice and had one son. He wrote the […]

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