Byline: Christine Dolen
Jul. 3--It's only a coincidence, but as one legendary black female singer -- jazz great Ella Fitzgerald -- is being celebrated in a biographical musical at Florida Stage, another is getting her moment in the spotlight at North Miami's M Ensemble. Gospel queen Mahalia Jackson has been gone since 1972, but she remains a pioneer and a standard-setter, a prodigiously talented woman whose gift for praising God in song allowed her to touch people of many ...
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