Who is the queen of gospel music?

Mahalia Jackson Mahalia Jackson, (born Octo, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.—died Janu, Evergreen Park, near Chicago, Illinois), American gospel music singer, known as the “Queen of Gospel Song.” Jackson was brought up in a strict religious atmosphere.

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Mahalia Jackson, (born October 26, 1911, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.—died January 27, 1972, Evergreen Park, near Chicago, Illinois), American gospel music singer, known as the “Queen of Gospel Song.” Jackson was brought up in a strict religious atmosphere. Her father’s family included several entertainers, but she was forced to confine her own musical activities to singing in the church choir and listening—surreptitiously—to recordings of Bessie Smith and Ida Cox as well as of Enrico Caruso. When she was 16, she went to Chicago and joined the Greater Salem Baptist Church choir, where her remarkable contralto voice soon led to her selection as a soloist.

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Jackson first came to wide public attention in the 1930s, when she participated in a cross-country gospel tour singing such songs as “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” and “I Can Put My Trust in Jesus.” In 1934 her first recording, “God Gonna Separate the Wheat from the Tares,” was a success, leading to a series of other recordings. Jackson’s first great hit, “Move on Up a Little Higher,” appeared in 1945; it was especially important for its use of the “vamp,” an indefinitely repeated phrase (or chord pattern) that provides a foundation for solo improvisation. All the songs with which she was identified—including “I Believe,” “Just over the Hill,” “When I Wake Up in Glory,” and “Just a Little While to Stay Here”—were gospel songs, with texts drawn from biblical themes and strongly influenced by the harmonies, rhythms, and emotional force of blues. Jackson refused to sing any but religious songs or indeed to sing at all in surroundings that she considered inappropriate. But she sang on the radio and on television and, starting in 1950, performed to overflow audiences in annual concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Eight of Jackson’s records sold more than a million copies each. Jackson was enormously popular abroad; her version of “Silent Night,” for example, was one of the all-time best-selling records in Denmark. She made a notable appearance at the Newport (Rhode Island) Jazz Festival in 1957—in a program devoted entirely, at her request, to gospel songs—and she sang at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in January 1961. In the 1950s and ’60s she was active in the civil rights movement; in 1963 she sang the old African American spiritual “I Been ’Buked and I Been Scorned” for a crowd of more than 200,000 in Washington, D.C., just before civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

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What female singer has the most money?

Rihanna, the magazine said, has reached a billionaire status with an estimated net worth of $1.7 billion. Her latest milestone makes her the wealthiest female musician in the world and the second wealthiest female entertainer, behind Oprah Winfrey.

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Forbes magazine has named the popular music star, Robyn Fenty, aka Rihanna, the world’s richest female musician. Rihanna, the magazine said, has reached a billionaire status with an estimated net worth of $1.7 billion. Her latest milestone makes her the wealthiest female musician in the world and the second wealthiest female entertainer, behind Oprah Winfrey. Most of her fortune, estimated on Wednesday by Forbes, does not come from chart-topping singles, but from the success of her cosmetics empire. Rihanna, 33, launched Fenty Beauty in 2017 with a dream to create a cosmetics company that made “women everywhere [feel] included.” In its first year, the company of which she owns 50 per cent stocks achieved sales of $550m, far more than other celebrity-endorsed makeup ranges.

Forbes magazine estimates that the company is now worth “a conservative $2.8bn.”

Rihanna’s stake in the company, combined with a 30% stake in the lingerie line Savage X Fenty and money generated during her 16-year career as a recording artist, take her fortune to $1.7bn, according to Forbes. “In February, the lingerie company raised $115 million in funding at a $1 billion valuation,” the American magazine reported. Similarly, the demand for the makeup company has remained fairly steady even as the pandemic sent shockwaves through the retail market. A 2020 annual report from LVMH revealed decreased revenue as a result of the pandemic, but Forbes reported the company as saying it “showed good resilience” and “a significant improvement in trends in all its activities compared to the first nine months of 2020.”

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