One of the most prolific entertainers of the last 50 years, Grammy award winning singer Nancy Wilson has made over 70 albums, ranging from blues to cabaret to pop. She prefers to be recognized as a ‘song stylist’. Her first single, “Guess Who I Saw Today”, was so successful that between 1960 and 1962, Capitol Records released five Nancy Wilson albums. In 1967, she received her own NBC series called ‘The Nancy Wilson Show’, which won an Emmy in 1975. She has also appeared on more recent TV shows such as The Cosby Show, Soul Food, and New York Undercover just to name a few.
She’s won three Grammys, received her Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in ’91 and had a street named after her in her hometown of Chillcothe, Ohio. Also being a major figure in the civil rights marches in the ’60s, Wilson was inducted into the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta. She was born on this date in 1937.
Other “Black Facts” on this date:
1885- the North Carolina General Assembly incorporated the town of Princeville, which is the oldest incorporated Black town in the United States.
1895- orator, abolitionist, and activist Frederick Augusta Douglass died in Washington, D.C.
1924- Academy Award winning actor Sidney Poitier was born in Miami, Florida.
1963- Hall of Famer Willie Mays signs with the San Francisco Giants as baseball’s highest paid player at the time, earning a modest $100,000 a year.
1968- Mississippi State Troopers used tear gas to stop a non-violent demonstration at Alcorn A&M College.
-ShaBe Allah(@KingPenStatus)
