Proper noun
Mahalia
A female given name
Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin. Tracy Chapman
I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn. Naomi Shihab Nye
Accompanying the visual scene is an audio recording of Mahalia Jackson singing “Amazing Grace.” Source: Internet
As part of their national tour, the SNCC’s Freedom Singers performed at Carnegie Hall on June 21, 1963, with gospel singer and civil rights activist Mahalia Jackson. Source: Internet
Wynton preached on, telling us how Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith and Mahalia Jackson were all baptized in the blues. Source: Internet
The record that made Mahalia Jackson “the Queen of Gospel” was sacred music through and through, but pop by default — it sold millions of copies. Source: Internet