Mahalia

American  

[muh-heyl-yuh] / məˈheɪl yə /

noun

1. a female given name, form of Mahala.

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Example Sentences

The pieces in this collection investigate, celebrate and critique exemplars of that culture, including the musical luminaries Charlie Parker, Charlie Christian, Jimmy Rushing and Mahalia Jackson, as well as the novelists Stephen Crane and Richard Wright.

From The Wall Street Journal

Singers from Sarah Vaughan to Mahalia Jackson and Peggy Lee have drawn out its cradle-song calm, while such jazz instrumentalists as Stan Getz and John Coltrane have often quickened its pulse.

From The Wall Street Journal

Louis Armstrong, Woody Guthrie, Mahalia Jackson and Leonard Bernstein are just a few of the artists who played and mingled at Music Inn in the ’50s.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sitting in front of my black-and-white television, the girls and I felt goose bumps all over us as gospel singer Mahalia Jackson sang an old Negro spiritual, “I Been Buked and I Been Scorned,” and we heard the words of what would come to be known as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

From Literature

In an alternate universe, one wonders whether Martin Luther King Jr. could have succeeded without the embrace of the likes of Jackie Robinson, Sidney Poitier and gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, or if Malcolm X could have achieved mainstream validation absent his association with boxing legend Muhammad Ali.

From Salon