Della Reese

Della Reese est une célèbre actrice et chanteuse américaine.

Biographie
Della Reese, de son vrai nom Delloreese Patricia Early, est née le 6 juillet 1931 à Détroit, dans le Michigan, d’ascendance afro-américaine d’un côté et indienne Cherokee de l’autre.

Della Reese commença à chanter à l’âge de six ans. Elle rejoignit la célèbre chanteuse gospel Mahalia Jackson. Pendant ses études à la Wayne State University, elle se produisit avec un groupe de gospel, les Meditation Singers.

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Delloreese Patricia Early, known professionally as Della Reese (born July 6, 1931),[1] is an American actress, singer, game show panelist of the 1970s, one-time talk-show hostess and ordained minister. She started her career in the 1950s as a gospel, pop and jazz singer, scoring a hit with her 1959 single « Don’t You Know? ». In her four decades of acting, she gained a whole new generation of fans in the 1990s, playing Tess, the leading role on the television show Touched by an Angel. In the late 1960s, she hosted her own talk show, Della, which ran for 297 episodes.[2][3] In more recent times, she became an ordained New Thought minister in the Understanding Principles for Better Living Church in Los Angeles, California.

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