Who Is Mahalila Jackson A Hero

Mahalia Jackson is an occupation gospel singer. She a nationality American she was born October 26 1911 in New Orleans, she died January 27, 1972 in Chicago. Mahalia started singing in small Baptist churches in New Orleans and Chicago. She also worked as a laundress. In 1930s she recorded breakthrough single “Move on up a little higher”. Then she had performed on her own radio station and television program. “As a child Mahalia was taken in by the sounds of New Orleans”. While she was a child she uses to listen to rhythms of animals but the main animals she use to look out for was woodpeckers and the rumbling of the trains. A lot of people were familiar with Mahalia (Lee). She became a member of a group call “Johnson gospel singers”. After