A.D. Amorosi It’s safe to say that if any musical artist was underrated, it was ex-Supreme Mary Wilson, who died in February at the age of 76.An elegant soul singer whose voice struck gold and platinum repeatedly as a member of the Supremes from 1961 — when Wilson and fellow Supreme Diana Ross signed with Motown Records — until her departure in 1977, it would seem that Wilson’s career path from there would have been similarly successful, but it wasn’t.When her debut solo album, the disco-fied “Mary Wilson,” was released in August of 1979 — essentially the same month that disco became a laughing stock.
With the “Disco Sucks” movement in full-swing, Wilson’s debut flopped, despite the grandeur of its songs. When Wilson moved toward recording.
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