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“She’d look you in the eyes, and your only response was ‘Yes ma’am,’” one lobbyist says of the late Motown legend’s efforts for artists’ rights
By Jacquelyn Martin/AP
It was Valentine’s Day of 2018 in Washington, D.C., and Mary Wilson was on a mission. Then 74 years old, the Supremes singer, outfitted in a glamorous red dress and very high heels, needed to convince the nation’s representatives and senators to vote yes on the CLASSICS Act, a proposed piece of legislation to support legacy artists. She wouldn’t take no for an answer.
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Mary Wilson performs onstage during Project Angel Food s Annual Angel Awards in 2019. // Getty Images for Project Angel Food, Charley Gallay
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Mary Wilson, one of the co-founders of The Supremes, died Monday at the age of 76, her publicist announced.
Wilson passed away suddenly at her Henderson, Nev., home, the singer s longtime friend and publicist Jay Schwartz said in a statement. No cause of death was given.
Wilson was a trendsetter who broke down social, racial and gender barriers, Schwartz said in his statement.
Wilson was born Mar. 6, 1944, in Greenville, Miss.; not long after her birth, her parents headed to St. Louis and then Chicago for better opportunities, but separated soon after. As a three-year-old, Wilson was sent to Detroit to live with her aunt and uncle. As she told the
Mary Wilson, who co-founded the Supremes as a 15-year-old in a Detroit housing project and stayed with the fabled, hitmaking Motown Records trio until its disso