REESE, DELLA

REESE, DELLA (née DELLOREESE PATRICIA EARLY). Gospel/Popular-music singer (6 July 1932 in Detroit Michigan). She obtained her musical education at Wayne University in Detroit, Michigan. She began singing in church choirs at the age of six, and organized a gospel group, the Meditations, during her college years. She toured with Mahalia Jackson in the summers of 1945-49 and sang at various times also with Beatrice Brown, Roberta Martin, and the Clara Ward Singers. In 1954 she moved from gospel...