died in her sleep at her home in Henderson, Nevada, on 8 February, the cause was hypertensive heart disease. Just two days earlier she had announced the release of new recordings, expressing the hope that some of them would come out before 6 March, which would have been her 77th birthday.
Together with Diana Ross and Florence Ballard, Wilson was a founding member of The Supremes. The trio’s radiant glamour and elegant couture was a potent adjunct to their magnificent singing, and, after a slow start, they became Motown’s most commercially successful act of the Sixties.
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