‘She told Martin Luther King: tell ’em about the dream!’ The eternal life of gospel singer Mahalia Jackson - The Guardian

Fifty years after her death, friends and fans including Al Sharpton assess the legacy of a singer who took gospel mainstream and became ‘as big as Beyoncé’

In 2018, following a bruising divorce, the British singer Sarah Brown was broke, financially, emotionally and spiritually I had nothing to live for. At her lowest ebb, she turned to a voice that had … [+12138 chars]

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