Mary wilson cause of death
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Mary Wilson was a singer, stage performer, activist, humanitarian, author and a founding member of one of the most successful groups in recording history, The Supremes. Wilson played an active role throughout the 1960s and 1970s in creating the blueprint for future generations of black girl groups.
Born in Greenville, Mississippi on March 6, 1944, to Sam and Johnnie Mae Wilson. Her family had short stays in St. Louis, Missouri and Chicago, Illinois while she was child before they sent her to Detroit, Michigan. After having spent much of her formative years living in Detroit with her aunt and uncle, Wilson reunited with her mother and younger siblings, Roosevelt and Katherine, at nine years old and settled in Detroit’s Brewster-Douglass Projects.
Wilson performed in talent shows throughout grade school in the 1950s. It was through this channel that she met future Supremes group mate, Florence Ballard. Milton Jenkins was the manager of the local singing group, The Primes, and he wanted to cultivate a similar female group. Mary joined what was originally known as The Primettes afte
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Mary Wilson - a Motown legend and a style icon
BBC music reporter
When The Supremes broke up in 1977, Mary Wilson faced a dilemma.
For nearly 20 years, she'd taken second place to a lead singer - first Diana Ross, then, in the 1970s, Jean Terrell.
Launching a solo career meant that, for the first time, she would be the centre of attention.
"I was used to singing 'oohs' and 'babys'," she said. "Now there are words. I had to learn all over again."
But Wilson, who has died at the age of 76, was always more than a backing singer. She was the lynchpin of The Supremes, keeping the group intact and on the road after Ross's departure.
She coached three new line-ups and cultivated their live audience in Europe - where, she realised, "you don't have to have a current record or product to be remembered and loved and respected for your craft".
Even after the band's demise, she curated The Supremes' legacy, staging exhibitions of their gowns and writing tw
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Mary Wilson
Mary Wilson may refer to:
- Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx (1916–2018), British poet, wife of Harold Wilson
- Mary L. G. Carus-Wilson (1861–1935), English author and speaker
- Mary Louise Wilson (born 1931), American film, musical theatre, stage and television actress
- Mary Wilson (singer) (1944–2021), American singer, member of Motown group The Supremes
- Mary Wilson, host of Radio New Zealand's Checkpoint news programme
- Mary Ellen Wilson (1864–1956), child abuse victim whose case spurred on the founding of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
- Mary Wilson (broadcaster) (born 1967), Irish broadcaster and journalist
- Mary Elizabeth Wilson (1893–1963), serial killer known as "the Merry widow of Windy Nook"
- Mary Evans Wilson (1866–1928), Boston civil rights activist
- Mary Ann Wilson (born 1936), American nurse and TV exercise presenter
- Mary Anne Wilson (1802–1867), English opera singer
- Mary Wilson, character in 1941 American comedy Angels with Broken Wings
- Mary Wilson, widow of Ralph Wilson and leader of the trust that holds
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