Marion Williams

American gospel singer (1927 –1994)

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Marion Williams was an American singer and composer born in Miami in 1927. She began her work period in 1946 and performed using her voice across genres including gospel music, spirituals, and rhythm and blues. As an African American female artist, she recorded for Columbia Records and Atlantic Records.

Williams received the MacArthur Fellows Program award and the Kennedy Center Honors. She died in Philadelphia on July 2, 1994. Her achievements are recognized in the Macarthur Fellows collection and the Kennedy Center Honors collection.

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Vinony catalogs Marion Williams in its Kennedy Center Honors collection (238 entries). It also appears in MacArthur Fellows.

Vinony's link graph records 117 inbound references to Marion Williams, and connects out to Philadelphia, Miami and Bob Dylan.

Vinony files it under 1927 births, 1994 deaths and 20th-century African-American women singers.

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Miami, Florida, USA

Marion Williams (August 29, 1927 – July 2, 1994) was an American gospel singer. Marion Williams was born in Miami, Florida, to a religiously devout mother and musically inclined father. She left school when she was nine years old to help support the family, and worked as a maid, a nurse, and in factories and laundries. She began singing in front of audiences while young. As was common in the…