Mahalia Jackson didn't start out with aspirations of becoming the queen of gospel music. She was listening to blues in her earliest days, specifically the songs of Bessie Smith, the empress of the ...
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Lifetime continues its streak of biopics with Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia, which premieres April 3 at 8 p.m. ET. Orange Is The New Black alum Danielle Brooks stars as Mahalia Jackson, who is one ...
This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Apr. 26, 1971. It is republished unedited in its original form. Tokyo — Modern soul music is the “same old hash warmed over,” says ...
Danielle Brooks was destined to play iconic gospel artist and civil rights activist Mahalia Jackson. At Lifetime‘s TCA presentation of Robin Roberts Presents Mahalia today, the Tony Award nominee and ...
Danielle Brooks stars as the gospel legend and civil rights activist in Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia, premiering April 3 on Lifetime Writer-Reporter, PEOPLE Danielle Brooks is returning to her ...
The churchy feeling that Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia inspires is especially fitting, because that’s where Danielle Brooks first discovered the gospel great. The Juilliard grad, who is best known ...
“Mahalia,” the Lifetime biopic produced by Robin Roberts and starring “Orange is the New Black’s” Danielle Brooks, tells the story of gospel and jazz singer Mahalia Jackson — but it doesn’t quite ...