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Musical artist. 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 was an actress, singer and ordained minister who starred in Touched by an Angel and other TV shows and movies. She died in 2017 at the age of 86 and was nominated for two Primetime Emmys.
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- Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- Encino, California, USA
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.
Learn about the life and career of Della Reese, a gospel singer, actress and ordained minister. She was known for her role as Tess on Touched by an Angel and her deep husky voice.
- July 6, 1931
- November 19, 2017
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Nov 20, 2017 · 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 ...
Nov 21, 2017 · Reese was a TV groundbreaker, according to the Television Academy: She was the first African-American woman to host her own talk show, “Della,” which aired 1969-70, and in 1970 became the first black woman to be tapped as a guest host for Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show.”
