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Cassandra Wilson's Legacy Lives On | Macon News
Cassandra Wilson, the genre-defying jazz icon and two-time Grammy winner whose soulful contralto echoed the spirit of Mississippi, has died at 70. Celebrated as America’s best singer by Time magazine, she fused jazz, blues, folk, R&B, and country into a sound uniquely her own — described by Jon Batiste as “the South itself.” Rising from Jackson’s coffeehouses to New York’s M-Base Collective, she earned four Grammys, paid homage to Billie Holiday, and in 2022 was honored as a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master. Her legacy as a trailblazer who carried homegrown roots across the globe…
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