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Mahalia Jackson
Jackson circa 1962, photographed by Carl Van Vechten
Background data
Birth name	Mahala Jackson
Also known as	Halie Jackson
Born	October 26, 1911[1] New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Died	Jan 27, 1972 (aged 60) Evergreen Park, Illinois, U.Due south.
Genres	Gospel
Occupations	Singer
Instruments	Voice
Years agile	1927–1971
Labels	Decca Coral Apollo Columbia
Associated acts	Albertina Walker Aretha Franklin Dorothy Norwood Della Reese Cissy Houston

Mahalia Jackson ( / / mə- hayl -yə ; October 26, 1911^[i] – January 27, 1972) was an American gospel singer. Possessing a powerfulcontralto voice,^[2] she was referred to as "The Queen of Gospel".^{[i] [3] [4]} Jackson became one of the about influential gospel singers in the globe and was heralded internationally as a vocaliser and civil rights activist. She was described by entertainer Harry Belafonte as "the single virtually powerful black adult female in the Usa".^[five] She recorded most xxx albums (mostly for Columbia Records) during her career, and her 45 rpm records included a dozen "golds"—million-sellers.

"I sing God's music because information technology makes me feel complimentary," Jackson once said about her choice of gospel, calculation, "Information technology gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues."^[6]

Contents

• 1Early life
• 2Career
  • 2.11920s–1940s
  • 2.21950s–1970s
  • 2.3Civil Rights Move
• threeDeath
• ivLegacy and honors
• 5Selective awards and honors
  • 5.1Grammy Honour history
  • 5.twoGrammy Hall of Fame
  • 5.iiiHonors
• 6Well-known songs
• 7In popular culture
• 8Columbia Records Discography
  • 8.1Compilations
• 9References
• 10Further reading
• 11External links

Early life

Born as Mahala Jackson and nicknamed "Halie", Jackson grew up in the Blackness Pearl section of the Carrollton neighborhood of Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana. The three-room domicile on Pitt Street housed thirteen people and a domestic dog. This included Little Mahala (named after her aunt, Mahala Clark-Paul whom the family called Aunt Duke); her brother Roosevelt Hunter, whom they called Peter; and her female parent Clemency Clark, who worked as both a maid and a laundress. Several aunts and cousins lived in the business firm equally well. Aunt Mahala was given the nickname "Knuckles" later proving herself the undisputed "dominate" of the family. The extended family (the Clarks) consisted of her mother's siblings: Isabell, Mahala, Boston, Porterfield, Hannah, Alice, Rhoda, Bessie, their children, grandchildren, and patriarch Rev. Paul Clark, a erstwhile slave. Mahalia'south father, John A. Jackson, Sr. was astevedore (dockworker) and a barber who later became a Baptist government minister. He fathered iv other children as well Mahalia: Wilmon (older) and so Yvonne, Pearl, and Johnny, Jr. (by his marriage shortly after Halie's nascency). Her begetter'due south sister, Jeanette Jackson-Burnett, and husband, Josie, were vaudeville entertainers.

At birth, Jackson suffered from genu varum, or "bowed legs". The doctors wanted to perform surgery by breaking her legs, but one of the resident aunts opposed information technology. Jackson's female parent would rub her legs down with greasy dishwater. The condition never stopped young Jackson from performing her dance steps for the white woman for whom her mother and Aunt Bong cleaned house.

Jackson was 5 when her mother Charity died, leaving her family unit to determine who would raise Halie and her brother. Aunt Duke assumed this responsibility, and the children were forced to work from sunup to sundown. Aunt Duke would always inspect the house using the "white glove" method. If the business firm was non cleaned properly, Jackson was beaten. If one of the other relatives could non practise their chores, or clean at their job, Jackson or ane of her cousins was expected to perform that particular task. School was hardly an choice. Jackson loved to sing and church building is where she loved to sing the most. Her Aunt Bong told her that one solar day she would sing in front of royalty, a prediction that would eventually come truthful. Jackson began her singing career at the local Mount Mariah Baptist Church building. She was baptized in Mississippi by Mt. Mariah's pastor, the Rev. Due east. D. Lawrence, so went dorsum to the church to "receive the correct mitt of fellowship".

Career

1920s–1940s

In 1927, at the age of sixteen, Jackson moved from the southward to Chicago, Illinois, in the midst of the Slap-up Migration. After her first Sunday church service, where she had given an impromptu performance of her favorite vocal, "Hand Me Down My Silver Trumpet, Gabriel", she was invited to bring together the Greater Salem Baptist Church Choir. She began touring the city's churches and surrounding areas with the Johnson Gospel Singers, i of the earliest professional gospel groups.^[vii] In 1929, Jackson met the composer Thomas A. Dorsey, known equally the Father of Gospel Music. He gave her musical communication, and in the mid-1930s they began a 14-year association of touring, with Jackson singing Dorsey'southward songs in church programs and at conventions. His "Have My Hand, Precious Lord" became her signature song.^[viii]

In 1936, Jackson married Isaac Lanes Grayness Hockenhull ("Ike"), a graduate of Fisk University and Tuskegee Institute who was 10 years her senior. She refused to sing secular music, a pledge she would go along throughout her professional person life.^{[ citation needed ]} She was frequently offered money to do and so and she divorced Isaac in 1941 because of his unrelenting pressure level on her to sing secular music and his addiction to gambling on racehorses.^{[ citation needed ]}

In 1931, Jackson recorded "You Amend Run, Run, Run". Non much is known about this recording and it is impossible to notice. Biographer Laurraine Goreau cites that it was also effectually this fourth dimension she added 'i' to her proper name, changing it from Mahala to Mahalia, pronounced / / . At historic period 26, Mahalia's second ready of records was recorded on May 21, 1937 under the Decca Coral label,^[9] accompanied by Estelle Allen (piano), in club: "God's Gonna Separate The Wheat From The Tares", "My Lord", "Keep Me Everyday", and "God Shall Wipe All Tears Away". Financially, these were not successful, and Decca let her become.

In 1947, she signed upwards with the Apollo label, and in 1948 recorded the William Herbert Brewster vocal "Movement On Upwardly a Lilliputian Higher", a recording so popular that stores could non stock plenty copies of it to come across need, selling an astonishing eight meg copies.^[ten] (The song was afterwards honored with the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1998).^[11] The success of this record rocketed Jackson to fame in the U.Due south. and presently later in Europe.^{[ commendation needed ]} During this fourth dimension she toured as a concert creative person, actualization more frequently in concert halls and less often in churches. As a consequence of this change in her venues, her arrangements expanded from piano and organ to orchestral accompaniments.

Other recordings received broad praise, including "Permit the Ability of the Holy Ghost Fall on Me" (1949), which won the French University's Grand Prix du Disque; and "Silent Night, Holy Night", which became i of the best-selling singles in the history of Norway. When Jackson sang "Silent Nighttime" on Denmark'south national radio, more than than xx thou requests for copies poured in.^[12] Other recordings on the Apollo characterization included "He Knows My Heart" (1946), "Amazing Grace" (1947), "Tired" (1947), "I Tin Put My Trust in Jesus" (1949), "Walk with Me" (1949), "Let the Power of the Holy Ghost Fall on Me" (1949), "Become Tell It on the Mountain" (1950), "The Lord'southward Prayer" (1950), "How I Got Over" (1951), "His Eye Is on the Sparrow" (1951), "I Believe" (1953), "Didn't It Rain" (1953), "Easily of God" (1953), and "Nobody Knows" (1954).^[13]

1950s–1970s

In 1950, Jackson became the beginning gospel singer to perform at New York's Carnegie Hall when Joe Bostic produced the Negro Gospel and Religious Music Festival.^{[ commendation needed ]} She started touring Europe in 1952 and was hailed by critics as the "globe'south greatest gospel vocalizer".^{[ commendation needed ]} In Paris she was called the Angel of Peace, and throughout the continent she sang to capacity audiences. The tour, withal, had to exist cutting short due to burnout. Jackson began a radio series on CBS and signed to Columbia Records in 1954. A author forDown Beat music magazine stated on November 17, 1954: "Information technology is generally agreed that the greatest spiritual vocaliser now live is Mahalia Jackson."^[14] Her debut album for Columbia wasThe Globe's Greatest Gospel Singer, recorded in 1954, followed by a Christmas anthology calledSweet Fiddling Jesus Boy, andBless This House in 1956.

With her mainstream success, Jackson was criticized past some gospel purists who complained about her manus-clapping and foot-stomping and almost her bringing "jazz into the church".^[fifteen]Jackson had many notable accomplishments during this menstruation, including her performance of many songs in the 1958 motion pictureSt. Louis Blues and singing "Trouble of the World" in 1959'sFalse of Life, recording with Percy Faith. When Mahalia Jackson recordedThe Power and the Celebrity with Faith, the orchestra arched their bows to honor her in solemn recognition of her bully phonation.^{[ commendation needed ]} She was the master attraction in the first gospel music showcase at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1957, which was organized by Joe Bostic and recorded past the Vocalization of America, and performed again in 1958 (Newport 1958). She was besides present at the opening nighttime of Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music in December 1957.^[sixteen] In 1961, she sang at U.South. President John F. Kennedy'southward countdown brawl. She recorded her second Christmas albumSilent Night (Songs for Christmas) in 1962. By this fourth dimension, she had too go a familiar confront to British tv viewers every bit a result of short films of her performing that were occasionally shown. Historian Noel Serrano stated: "God touched the vocal chords of this Great Woman and placed a special elixir to sing for His laurels and Glory!"^{[ citation needed ]}

At the March on Washington in 1963, she sang in front of 250,000 people "How I Got Over" and "I've Been 'Buked, and I've Been Scorned". Martin Luther Rex, Jr. fabricated his famous "I Take a Dream" speech communication there. She too sang "Take My Paw, Precious Lord" at his funeral after he was assassinated in 1968.^[17] Jackson sang to crowds at the 1964 New York World's Fair and was accompanied by "wonderboy preacher" Al Sharpton.^[xviii] She toured Europe over again in 1961 (Recorded Live in Europe 1961), 1963–1964, 1967, 1968, and 1969. In 1970, she performed for Liberian President William Tubman.

Jackson'south final anthology wasWhat The World Needs At present (1969). The next year, in 1970, Jackson and Louis Armstrong performed "Merely a Closer Walk with Thee" and "When the Saints Go Marching In" together. She ended her career in 1971 with a concert in Germany, and when she returned, made 1 of her final television appearances onThe Flip Wilson Bear witness. Jackson devoted much of her time and energy to helping others. She established the Mahalia Jackson Scholarship Foundation for young people who wanted to nourish college. For her efforts in helping international understanding, she received the Silverish Dove Award. Chicago remained her domicile until the end. She opened a beauty parlor and a florist shop with her earnings, while also investing in real estate ($100,000 a year at her peak).^[19]

Civil Rights Movement

Jackson was known to take played an of import role during the ceremonious rights movement. In August 1956, she met Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther Rex, Jr. at the National Baptist Convention.^{[20] [17]} A few months later, both King and Abernathy contacted her about coming to Montgomery, Alabama to sing at a rally to raise money for the coach cold-shoulder. They likewise hoped that she would inspire the people who were getting discouraged with the boycott.^[xx]

Despite death threats, Mahalia Jackson agreed to sing in Montgomery. Her concert was on December six, 1956. By then, the United states Supreme Court had ruled in Browder five. Gayle that motorbus segregation was unconstitutional. In Montgomery, the ruling was non however put into outcome, so the bus boycott continued. At this concert she sang "I've Heard of a Metropolis called Heaven", "Movement On Upward a Lilliputian Higher", and "Silent Night". There was a good turnout at the concert and they were happy with the amount of money raised. Even so, when she returned to the Abernathy's home, it had been bombed. The boycott finally ended on Dec 21, 1956 when federal injunctions were served, forcing Montgomery to comply with the courtroom ruling.^[xx]

Although she was internationally known and had moved up to the northern states, she still encountered racial prejudice. One account of this was when she tried to purchase a house in Chicago. Everywhere she went, the white owners and real manor agents would turn her away, challenge that the business firm had already been sold or that they inverse their heed about selling. When she finally institute a business firm, the neighbors were non happy. Shots were fired at her windows and she had to contact the police for protection. White families started moving out and black families started moving in. Everything remained the same in her neighborhood except for the pare color of the residents.^[20]

Male monarch and Abernathy continued to protestation segregation. In 1957, they founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). The outset major consequence sponsored by the SCLC was the Prayer Pilgrimage for Liberty in Washington D.C. on May 17, 1957, the 3rd anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education determination.^[twenty] From this point frontwards, she appeared oft with Male monarch, singing earlier his speeches and for SCLC fundraisers. In a 1962 SCLC press release, King wrote that Jackson had "appeared on numerous programs that helped the struggle in the South, simply at present she has indicated that she wants to be involved on a regular ground".^[17] Jesse Jackson said that when Rex called on her, she never refused, traveling with him to the deepest parts of the segregated due south.^[21]

Jackson performed "I Been 'Buked and I Been Scorned" before Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, where she also urged Dr. King to "Tell them about the dream."^[22]

Jackson said she hoped her music could "intermission down some of the detest and fright that separate the white and black people in this state".^[23] She also contributed financially to the move.^[17]

Death [edit]

Jackson died in Chicago on January 27, 1972 of center failure and diabetes complications. Two cities paid tribute: Chicago and New Orleans. Start in Chicago, outside the Greater Salem Baptist Church, fifty,000 people filed silently past her mahogany, glass-topped bury in concluding tribute to the queen of gospel vocal.^[24] The next day, as many people who could—6,000 or more—filled every seat and stood forth the walls of the city'due south public concert hall, the Arie Crown Theater of McCormick Place, for a two-60 minutes funeral service. Mahalia's pastor, the Rev. Leon Jenkins; MayorRichard J. Daley; and Mrs. Coretta Scott Male monarch eulogized Mahalia during the Chicago funeral every bit "a friend – proud, black and beautiful".^[25] Sammy Davis, Jr. and Ella Fitzgerald paid their respects. Dr. Joseph H. Jackson, president of the National Baptist Convention, United states of americaA., Inc., delivered the eulogy at the Chicago funeral. Aretha Franklin closed the Chicago rites with a moving rendition of "Precious Lord, Have My Mitt".

Three days later on, a m miles away, the scene repeated itself: again the long lines, once more the silent tribute, once more the thousands filling the great hall of the Rivergate Convention Centre in downtown New Orleans this time. Mayor Moon Landrieu and Louisiana Governor John J. McKeithen joined gospel singer Bessie Griffin, Dick Gregory praised Mahalia'south "moral strength" as master reason for her success,^{[ commendation needed ]} and Lou Rawls sang "Just a Closer Walk With Thee". The funeral cortège of 24 limousines drove slowly past her childhood place of worship, Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, where her recordings played through loudspeakers. It made its mode to Providence Memorial Park in Metairie, Louisiana where Jackson was entombed.^[26] Despite the inscription of Jackson'due south birth year on her headstone as 1912, she was actually built-in in 1911. Amidst Mahalia's surviving relatives is her great-nephew, the Indiana Pacers forward Danny Granger.

Jackson's estate was reported at more than four 1000000 dollars. Some reporters estimated that record royalties, television receiver and movie residuals, and various investments made information technology worth more than. The bulk of the manor was left to a number of relatives, many of whom cared for Mahalia during her early years. Amidst principal heirs were relatives including her one-half-blood brother John Jackson and aunt Hannah Robinson. Neither of her ex-husbands, Isaac Hockenhull (1936–1941) and Sigmund Galloway (1964–1967), were mentioned in her will.^[27]

Legacy and honors

Mahalia Jackson's music was played widely on gospel and Christian radio stations, such every bit Family Radio. Her good friend Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "A voice like this one comes not once in a century, but once in a millennium."^[28] She was a close friend of Doris Akers, one of the most prolific gospel composers of the 20th century. In 1958, they co-wrote the hit "Lord, Don't Movement the Mountain". Mahalia also sang many of Akers' own compositions such every bit "God Is So Good to Me", "God Spoke to Me One Twenty-four hour period", "Problem", "Lead On, Lord Jesus", and "He'south a Calorie-free Unto My Pathway", helping Akers to secure her position equally the leading female Gospel composer of that time. In addition to sharing her singing talent with the earth, she mentored the extraordinarily giftedAretha Franklin. Mahalia was also proficient friends with Dorothy Norwood and fellow Chicago-based gospel vocaliser Albertina Walker. She likewise discovered a immature Della Reese. On the twentieth anniversary of her death, Smithsonian Folkways Recording commemorated Jackson with the anthologyI Sing Because I'one thousand Happy, which includes interviews about her childhood conducted by Jules Scherwin.

American Idol winner and Grammy Award-winning R&B singer Fantasia Barrino has been cast to play Mahalia Jackson in a biographical pic almost her life. The movie volition be based on the 1993 bookGot to Tell Information technology: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel. The moving-picture show is said to be directed past Euzhan Palcy, according toThe Hollywood Reporter.^[29]

The National University of Recording Arts & Sciences created the Gospel Music or Other Religious Recording category for Jackson, making her the first gospel music creative person to win the prestigious Grammy Honour.^{[ citation needed ]}

In December 2008, she was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.

A prominent namesake in her native New Orleans is the Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts, which was remodeled and reopened on January 17, 2009, with a gala ceremony featuringPlácido Domingo, Patricia Clarkson, and the New Orleans Opera directed by Robert Lyall.^[thirty]

Selective awards and honors

Grammy Accolade history

Mahalia Jackson Grammy Laurels History [31] [32]
Year	Category	Title	Genre	Label	Result
1976	Best Soul Gospel Performance	"How I Got Over"	Gospel	Columbia	Winner
1972	Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award[33]				Winner
1969	Best Soul Gospel Performance	"Guide Me, O Grand Great Jehovah"	Gospel	Columbia	Nominee
1963	Best Gospel Or Other Religious Recording, Musical	"Brand a Joyful Noise Unto The Lord"	Gospel	Columbia	Nominee
1962	All-time Gospel Or Other Religious Recording	"Great Songs of Love and Faith"	Gospel	Columbia	Winner
1961	Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording	"Every Time I Feel the Spirit"	Gospel	Columbia	Winner

Grammy Hall of Fame

Mahalia Jackson was posthumously inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor artists whose recordings are at least twenty-five years one-time and have "qualitative or historical significance."^[34]

Grammy Hall of Fame Laurels
Year Recorded	Vocal	Genre	Label	Twelvemonth Inducted
1947	"Movement On Upward a Piffling Higher"[ citation needed ]	Gospel (Unmarried)	Apollo	1998

Honors [edit]

Mahalia Jackson Honors
Year	Category	Honor	Result	Notes
1998	U.S. Postal Service	32¢ Postage stamp Postage[35]	Honored	Issued July 15, 1998
1997	Stone and Ringlet Hall of Fame		Inducted	"Early on Influence"
1988	Hollywood Walk of Fame	Star		at 6840 Hollywood Blvd.
1978	Gospel Music Hall of Fame		Inducted
2008	Louisiana Music Hall of Fame		Inducted

Well-known songs

• "What Child Is This"
• "How I Got Over"
• "Trouble of the World"
• "Silent Night"
• "Become Tell Information technology on the Mount"
• "Amazing Grace", (Apollo 194, 1947)
• "Move On Upwards A Little Higher", (Apollo 164, 1947)
• "Take My Manus, Precious Lord" (performed this vocal at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'southward funeral)
• "Think Me
• "Joshua Fit the Boxing of Jericho"
• "Belongings My Saviour's Hands"
• "Roll Jordan, Roll"
• "The Upper Room"
• "Nosotros Shall Overcome"
• "I'm on My Style to Canaan"
• "You'll Never Walk Alone"
• "His Eye is on the Sparrow"
• "What a Friend We Have in Jesus"
• "Didn't it Rain"
• "Wait Till My Modify Comes", (Apollo 110, 1946)
• "He Knows My Eye", (Apollo 145, 1946)
• "Come up on Children, Let's Sing"

In popular culture

• She appears in the 1960 film,Jazz on a Summer's Twenty-four hours – an artistic documentary filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. She sings three gospel numbers at the end of the film, including "The Lord'southward Prayer".
• In the 1958 movieSt. Louis Blues, she played the character Bessie May and sang in the church choir.
• In the movieJungle Fever, the graphic symbol played past Ossie Davis tries to distract himself from his son Gator's (Samuel L. Jackson) cleft cocaine addiction by listening to Mahalia Jackson albums past the hour.
• In the 1959 filmSimulated of Life, Mahalia Jackson portrays the choir soloist, singing "Problem of the Globe" at Annie's funeral. She has no speaking lines, simply her singing operation highlights the climactic scene.
• In the 1964 FilmThe Best Human being, Mahalia plays herself, singing at a Autonomous Covention in a ii-minute clip.
• Duke Ellington, with whom she occasionally recorded, most notably on the studio version ofBlack, Brown and Beige, paid tribute to her on hisNew Orleans Suite album with the song "Portrait of Mahalia Jackson".
• In the 1970 documentary motion pictureElvis: That's the Style Information technology Is, Elvis Presley jokes with his audition that, "I'grand gonna bring in the Supremes tomorrow night, you know. And Mahalia Jackson singing pb with them."

Columbia Records Discography

• Earth'due south Greatest Gospel Singer
• Sweet Little Jesus Male child
• Bless This House
• You'll Never Walk Solitary
• Live at Newport 1958
• Great Gettin' Up Forenoon
• Come On Children, Let'due south Sing
• The Ability and the Celebrity
• I Believe
• Everytime I Feel the Spirit
• Recorded Live in Europe During Her Latest Concert Tour
• Great Songs of Dear and Religion
• Make a Joyful Racket Unto the Lord
• Silent Nighttime
• Mahalia Jackson's Greatest Hits
• Allow's Pray Together
• Mahalia
• Garden of Prayer
• My Faith
• Mahalia Jackson in Concert Easter Sun, 1967
• A Mighty Fortress
• Christmas With Mahalia
• Mahalia Sings the Gospel Right Out of the Church
• What the World Needs Now

Compilations

• The Best of Mahalia Jackson Hymns, Spirituals & Songs of Inspiration (1976)

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