Overview
- Wilson’s death was confirmed by her longtime manager, who said she died peacefully at home surrounded by family and close friends and asked that the family be given privacy.
- Jackson Mayor John Horhn released an official tribute praising Wilson’s role in carrying Mississippi’s musical traditions to a global audience.
- Wilson was a two-time Grammy-winning vocalist known for a smoky contralto and for blending jazz with blues, gospel and folk in a career that reached international audiences.
- Her breakthrough came after signing with Blue Note Records in 1993, producing landmark albums including Blue Light 'Til Dawn and the Grammy-winning New Moon Daughter.
- She recorded widely from the 1980s on, began on Munich’s JMT label, released her last studio album in 2015 and joined the supergroup Dopamine in 2020; memorial arrangements will be announced later.