Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) Was A Jazz Pianist, Composer,
Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was a jazz pianist, composer, and arranger who wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded over one hundred records. She was born in Atlanta but grew up in Pittsburgh. She was one of eleven children and taught herself to play piano, performing her first recital at age ten. She became a professional musician at the age of fifteen when she played with Duke Ellington and the Washingtonians. She joined a band led by saxophonist John Williams and married him in 1927.
They moved to Oklahoma City, where in 1929 John joined Andy Kirk’s band, Twelve Clouds of Joy. She worked for a year as a solo pianist and a music arranger. She took the name “Mary Lou” and was recording jazz albums.
She left Twelve Clouds of Joy after divorcing her husband. She moved back to Pittsburgh, where she started a band with Harold “Shorty” Baker and Art Blakey. She left the group to join Duke Ellington’s orchestra in New York where she became the star vocalist. She moved back to New York where she started a radio show called Mary Lou Williams’s Piano Workshop.
She took her talents overseas and performed mostly in England. She retired from music and focused on her newly embraced Catholic faith. She created the Bel Canto Foundation, an effort to help addicted musicians return to performing. She returned to the music business in time to perform at the Newport Jazz Festival. She started her record label and founded the Pittsburgh Jazz Festival.
She focused on religious jazz with recordings like Black Christ of the Andes which was a tribute to the Afro-Peruvian priest St. Martin de Porres. She wrote Music for Peace. She never abandoned secular music as in 1965 when she performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival. She recorded new albums and became an artist-in-residence at Duke University, teaching the History of Jazz among other courses. She directed the Duke Jazz Ensemble. She performed at the White House for President Jimmy Carter and guests. She participated in Benny Goodman’s 40th anniversary Carnegie Hall concert. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence
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Grammy-nominated singer Susana Baca hospitalised in Lima
Award-winning Afro-Peruvian singer and former culture minister Susana Baca has been admitted to intensive care in a hospital in Lima, her family said Friday.
Baca, a three-time Latin Grammy Award winner, is 79 years old.
"Susanita is very delicate, she is in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in the Edgardo Rebagliati Hospital, where the medical team is doing its best for her recovery," Baca's husband Ricardo Pereira said in a statement, without specifying the nature of her ailment.
Baca, an icon in her country and popular in the United States and Europe, was discovered and signed to the Luaka Bop label three decades ago by David Byrne, former lead singer of the Talking Heads.
She won the Latin Grammy for best folk album in 2002 with "Lamento Negro" and again in 2020 with "A Capella." In 2011, she received another Latin Grammy for Record of the Year for "Latinoamerica," her collaboration with Puerto Rican group Calle 13.
In an interview with AFP, Baca once compared her role in bringing Afro-Peruvian music to the international stage to the contributions of icons such as Cape Verdean Cesaria Evora and South African Miriam Makeba.
Her latest album, "Epifanias," was nominated in the best global music album category for the Grammy Awards handed out in Los Angeles this month.
In 2011, she became the first Afro-Peruvian to hold a ministerial post, but left the culture portfolio within months to resume touring.
Source: msn.com/en-in/health/other/grammy-nominated-singer-susana-baca-hospitalised-in-lima/ar-BB1ipGDZ
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