Mahalia Jackson
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Emerging from a poverty-stricken New Orleans household that traced its roots to enslaved ancestors, she found early musical direction in church choirs before relocating to Chicago as a teenager, where she joined the Johnson Singers and absorbed the styles of Thomas Dorsey and Bessie Smith. Her breakthrough arrived in 1947 when the single “Move On Up a Little Higher” sold two million copies and rea…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
