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Delloreese Patricia Early (July 6, 1931 – November 19, 2017), known professionally as Della Reese, was an American jazz and gospel singer, actress, and ordained minister whose career spanned seven decades. She began her long career as a singer, scoring a hit with her 1959 single "Don't You Know?".
Nov 20, 2017 · Della Reese, who sang with Mahalia Jackson and co-hosted The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, passed away at 86 in 2017. She was best known for playing Tess, a heaven-sent angel, on the CBS series Touched By an Angel.
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Della Reese. Actress: Touched by an Angel. Della began singing in her hometown of Detroit when she was 6 years old. As a teenager, she toured with gospel great Mahalia Jackson and, at the age of 18, she formed the Meditation Singers and became the first performer to take gospel music to the casinos of Las Vegas.
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Nov 20, 2017 · Della Reese, who starred in the hit show "Touched by an Angel", passed away in her California home on Sunday night. She was a jazz singer, a gospel minister and a recipient of several awards and nominations.
Nov 20, 2017 · Della Reese, the husky-voiced singer and actress who spent almost a decade playing a down-to-earth heavenly messenger on the CBS series “Touched by an Angel” and became an ordained minister in...
Nov 21, 2017 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — Della Reese, the actress and gospel-influenced singer who in middle age found her greatest fame as Tess, the wise angel in the long-running television drama “Touched by an Angel,” has died at age 86.
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Nov 20, 2017 · The star of the long-running TV drama passed away at 86 in her home in Los Angeles. She was also a gospel singer who performed with Mahalia Jackson and a trailblazer for positive and optimistic people.
