“And, of course, when she got through with the big meetings, she could cook as good as she could sing.”
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Mahalia Jackson
Mahalia Jackson was an American gospel singer, widely considered one of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century. With a career spanning 40 years, Jackson was integral to the development and spread of gospel blues in black churches throughout the U.S. During a time when racial segregation was pervasive in American society, she met considerable and unexpected success in a recording career…
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entertainment · American gospel singer (1911–1972) · gospel singer · musician · religious leader · singer · also Mahalia Jackson, The Queen of Gospel, Jackson
Born 26 October 1911 · Died 27 January 1972 · Q206466
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2026· 2 entries
“sales were weak, but were distributed to jukeboxes in New Orleans, one of which Jackson”
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2020· 1 entry
Released album “Salon”.
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2018· 1 entry
Released album “I Sing Because I’m Happy”.
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2017· 1 entry
Released album “Complete Mahalia Jackson, Vol. 16”.
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2016· 2 entries
Released album “Mahalia Jackson Sings: The Great Television Performances”.
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Released album “Moving On Up A Little Higher”.
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2015· 3 entries
Released album “Most Transcendental Female Vocals: Ann Peebles & Mahalia Jackson, Vol.2”.
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Released album “Most Transcendental Female Vocals: Ann Peebles & Mahalia Jackson, Vol.1”.
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Released album “verytime I Feel The Spirit - Bless This House - The Power And The Glory”.
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord”.
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “Legend:The Best Of Mahalia Jackson”.
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Released album “Come to Jesus”.
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2004· 4 entries
Released album “This Is Gold”.
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Released album “The Essential Mahalia Jackson”.
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Released album “In the Upper Room: A Proper Introduction to Mahalia Jackson”.
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Released album “Christmas With Mahalia Jackson”.
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2003· 2 entries
Released album “The Christmas Songs”.
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Released album “Amazing Grace”.
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2002· 3 entries
Released album “Queens of Gospel”.
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Released album “Gospel - Mahalia Jackson”.
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Released album “The Gold Collection: 40 Classic Performances”.
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2001· 4 entries
Released album “Sunday Morning Prayer Meeting With Mahalia Jackson”.
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Released album “Oh, My Lord”.
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Released album “Complete Mahalia Jackson Vol.2”.
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Released album “The Gospel Queen”.
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2000· 2 entries
Released album “Walk Over God's Heaven / Go Tell It on the Mountain”.
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Released album “Christmas”.
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1999· 2 entries
Released album “Mahalia Jackson, Volume 1”.
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Released album “The Ultimate Collection”.
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1998· 4 entries
Released album “The Power and the Glory”.
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Released album “Christmas Gold”.
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Released album “How I Got Over: The Apollo Sessions 1946-1954”.
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Released album “Intégrale Mahalia Jackson, Vol. 1 : 1937–1946”.
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1997).
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1996· 4 entries
Released album “16 Most Requested Songs”.
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Released album “The Queen of Gospel”.
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Released album “Gospel Queen”.
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Released album “Gospel At Its Best”.
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1995· 2 entries
Released album “Sings Songs of Christmas”.
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Released album “The Best of Mahalia Jackson”.
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1994· 2 entries
Released album “The Apollo Sessions: 1946-1951”.
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Released album “The Essence of Mahalia Jackson”.
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1993· 3 entries
Released album “Best Loved Spirituals”.
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Released album “Queen Of Gospel”.
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Released album “Just As I Am”.
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1992· 5 entries
Released album “Mahalia Jackson, Volume 2”.
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Released album “Silent Night, Holy Night”.
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Released album “I'm On My Way”.
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Released album “I'm Going To Tell God”.
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Released album “Gospels, Spirituals & Hymns - Volume 2”.
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “Gospels, Spirituals & Hymns”.
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1990· 2 entries
Released album “Silent Night - Gospel Christmas”.
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Released album “Beautiful tomorrow”.
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “Mahalia Jackson Sings America's Favorite Hymns”.
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1988· 2 entries
Released album “Live In Antibes, 1968”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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1987· 1 entry
Released album “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hand”.
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “In the Upper Room”.
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “The Warm and Tender Soul of Mahalia Jackson, Vol. 2”.
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “This Is Mahalia Jackson - The World's Greatest Gospel Singer”.
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Mahalia Jackson”.
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1975· 1 entry
Released album “Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen”.
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1974· 1 entry
Released album “In Memoriam”.
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1972· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1972).
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Died 1972-01-27.
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Released album “Starportrait Mahalia Jackson”.
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1971· 2 entries
Released album “Inédits Vol. 2”.
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Jackson made television appearances with Johnny Cash and Flip Wilson
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1970· 1 entry
Released album “Inédits Vol. 1”.
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1969· 2 entries
Released album “What The World Needs Now”.
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Released album “Sings The Gospel Right Out Of The Church”.
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1968· 4 entries
Released album “Garden of Prayer”.
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Which she cut short for health reasons, but she returned in 1969 to adoring audiences
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Released album “A Mighty Fortress”.
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Released album “Christmas With Mahalia”.
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lincoln (1967).
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1964· 2 entries
Released album “Let's Pray Together”.
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Mobbed in several cities and proclaiming, "I thought I was the Beatles
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1963· 2 entries
Released album “Mahalia Jackson's Greatest Hits”.
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After their successful campaign to end segregation in Birmingham by holding a fundraising rally to pay for protestors' bail
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1962· 3 entries
Released album “Silent Night”.
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Released album “Great Songs of Love and Faith”.
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Released album “Negro Spirituals, Vol. 2”.
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1961· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Inspirational Performance for Every Time I Feel the Spirit (1961).
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With incredible success, mobbed in several cities and needing police escorts
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Released album “Everytime I Feel the Spirit”.
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1960· 2 entries
Released album “Come On Children, Let's Sing”.
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21 years after the Daughters of the American Revolution forbade Anderson from performing there in front of an integrated audience
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1959· 1 entry
Released album “Great Gettin’ Up Morning”.
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1958· 1 entry
Released album “Black, Brown and Beige”.
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1957· 1 entry
And 1958, and in the latter's concert film, Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959)
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1956· 3 entries
Released album “I Believe”.
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Released album “Bless This House”.
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Jackson met Martin Luther King Jr
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1955· 1 entry
Released album “The World’s Greatest Gospel Singer”.
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1954· 2 entries
Jackson learned that Berman had been withholding royalties and had allowed her contract with Apollo to expire
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Writing that she expected to be embarrassed by Jackson, but "when she sang, she made me choke up and feel wondrously proud of my people and my heritage
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1952· 2 entries
Jackson experienced occasional bouts of fatigue and shortness of breath
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Showed her singing authentic gospel blues, prompting a large parade in her honor in Dayton, Ohio, with 50,000 black attendees – more than the integrated audience that showed up for a Harry Truman campaign stop around the
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1951· 1 entry
Broke attendance records set by Goodman and Arturo Toscanini
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1947· 3 entries
When she was referred to Jackson who set up a brief training with Robert Anderson, a longtime member of Jackson's entourage
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Selling 50,000 copies in Chicago and two million nationwide
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With the release of "Move On Up a Little Higher", selling two million copies and hitting the number-two spot on Billboard charts, both firsts for gospel music
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1946· 1 entry
Appeared at the Golden Gate Ballroom in Harlem
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1943· 1 entry
Brought home a new Buick for her that he promptly stopped paying for
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1938· 2 entries
When Jackson often sang "If You See My Savior Tell Him That You Saw Me", saying: "and the people, look like they were just awed by it, on a higher plane, gone
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But as the Depression lightened Jackson saved some money, earned a beautician's license from Madam C
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1937· 1 entry
Jackson met Mayo "Ink" Williams, a music producer who arranged a session with Decca Records
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1935· 1 entry
Jackson met Isaac "Ike" Hockenhull, a chemist working as a postman during the Depression
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1932· 1 entry
On Dawson's request, she sang for Franklin D
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1931· 1 entry
Singles that she intended to sell at National Baptist Convention meetings, though she was mostly unsuccessful
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1911· 1 entry
Born 1911-10-26.
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1872· 1 entry
And she pre-sold 20,000 copies of "Silent Night" in Copenhagen
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