New Orleans blues and gospel singer Marva Wright died Tuesday at age 62, her former manager said.
Adam Shipley confirmed that Wright died of complications from a stroke she suffered last year.
She sang traditional jazz and gospel standards but was better known for sultry, sometimes bawdy blues songs. Among her best known songs were "Heartbreakin' Woman" and "Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean."
She released a series of albums on local and international record labels, and frequently performed in Europe and at blues festivals around the country.
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her childhood memories were visits to Chicago.the adopted home of New Orleans gospel
great Mahalia Jackson, who had grown up with Wright's mother.
"My mother would go to the national Baptist convention," Ms. Wright once said,
according to an account in The Times-Picayune newspaper. "When it convened in Chicago,
Mahalia would say, 'Girl, you don't need to get no hotel. Stay with me.' That's what
my mother would do. I met Mahalia when I was 9 years old, but I never realized she was
that popular until I got older."
Marva Wright was hospitalized .when she was a serious stroke following a gig at
the CoCo Club on Bourbon Street.Relatives said then that she had just recovered from
an earlier, less serious stroke.
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Marva Wright R.I.P
