Mary Wilson, co-founder of the Supremes, RIP

Mary Wilson, co-founder of pioneering Motown trio the Supremes, died yesterday. She was 76. From the New York Times:

Ms. Wilson, who grew up in the Brewster-Douglass Projects in Detroit, had been a singer in her childhood. Milton Jenkins, who in 1959 was the manager of the Primes, a male singing group, moved to form a female version of the act.

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