Person
ISNI: 
0000 0000 7838 7277
https://isni.org/isni/0000000078387277
Name: 
Della Reese
Della Resse
Early, Delloreese Patricia
Early, Deloreese Patricia
Reese, Della
Reese Lett, Della
Reese-Lett, Della (Rev)
Taliaferro, Dellareese
Dates: 
1931-
Creation class: 
Language material
Musical sound recording
Creation role: 
author
creator
performer
Related identities: 
Early, Delloreese Patricia (Wirklicher Name; other identity, same person)
Related names: 
Fitzgerald, Ella (1918-1996)
Hefti, Neal (1922-2008)
RCA France
Tormé, Mel (1925-1999)
Universal Foundation for Better Living (isAffiliatedWith)
Wayne State University (isAffiliatedWith)
Titles: 
1962 Live Guard Session
All Alone
All of Me
All The Hits And More
Amen!
American in Paris, An
And That Reminds Me / A Date With Della Reese
And That Reminds Me: The Jubilee Years
And the angels sing (2 min 38 s)
Angel Sings, The
Angels along the way
At basin street East
Baby, won't you please come home (3 min 07 s)
Bells Are Ringing
Birth of the Blues
Black Is Beautiful
Blues skies (1 min 45 s)
Brigadoon
Burlesque swing
C'Mon And Hear
Can‐Can
CHOICE OF COLORS
Classic Della, The
Cocktail Hour
COMMENT
COMPARED TO WHAT
Cottage for Sale, A
Could Have Told You, I
Crazy for You
CYCLES
Dancefloor jazz
Deep in a Dream
Della by Starlight
Della Della Cha Cha Cha
Della on stage - At Basin Street east
della on stage enregistrement sonore
Della on Strings of Blue
Della Reese Live
Della Reese with Duke Ellington & his orchestra
Don't You Know / Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?
Essential Della Reese
Everyday / There's No Two Ways About It
Fine jazz ladiesDella Reese, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland...
Games people play
Get Along Without You Very Well, I
GET TOGETHER
Girl Crazy
Goody goody (3 min 35 s)
Gotta Be Me... This Trip Out, I
Had the Craziest Dream, I
Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe
High Society
Hit the Deck
I'll get by (2 min 34 s)
I'm beginning to see the light (2 min 23 s)
IF EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD LOVED EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD
If I Forget You
It could be with one hour tonight (2 min 47s)
Jubilee Years: The Singles 1954-1959, The
Lady is a tramp (2 min 35 s), The
Legendary Della Reese
Let Me In Your Life
Let's get away from it all (2 min 25 s)
Like It Like Dat!, I
Live in Hollywood, 1966
Melancholy Baby
Mojo club presents Dancefloor jazz
Moody
Nearness of You, The
Oh, Kay!
One of a Kind (Live)
Pennies From Heaven
PROUD MARY
Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd, The
Say It Isn’t So
Shall We Dance
Simple Simon
Sky’s the Limit, The
Some of My Best Friends are the Blues
Someday (5 min 12 s)
Special Delivery
Story of the Blues / A Date with Della Reese at Mr. Kelly's in Chicago
Story of the Blues / Melancholy Baby, The
Sure Like Lovin' You
Swept away original motion picture soundtrack
Swing, slow & cha cha cha the best of bella Della
That Old Feeling
These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
Thou swell (2 min 23 s)
Touch Me Again
Touch of Your Lips, The
Two Sleepy People
Voice of an Angel
Waltz With Me, Della
What Do You Know About Love?
When Your Lover Has Gone
Wish I Knew, I
WITH PEN IN HAND
YOU KNOW HOW LOVE IS
You're driving me crazy (2 min 27 s)
Notes: 
African American National Biography, accessed March 22, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database (Reese, Della; Delloreese Patricia Early; singer, actress, jazz musician, ordained minister; born 06 July 1931 in Detroit, Michigan, United States; studied at Wayne State University, Detroit; formed a gospel group Meditation Singers; joined Erskine Hawkins Orchestra; became an artist on the RCA Victor records (1959); played Tess in CBS television series Touched by an Angel (1994-2002); earned seven Image Awards, Emmy Award, Annie Award, and the Golden Globe Award for Touched by an Angel (1996-2002); won a Grammy Award for her album Della Reese and Brilliance (1991) and for My Soul Feels Better Right Now (1999); was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (1994); became an ordained minister by the Universal Foundation for Better Living (1987); presided over the Universal Foundation for Better Living Church she founded in Los Angeles)
Angels along the way, 1997 CIP t.p. (Della Reese) CIP galley (b. July 6, 1931)
Associated Group: Universal Foundation for Better Living
Associated Group: Wayne State University Meditation Singers Erskine Hawkins Orchestra RCA Victor Records CBS Television Network naf
Associated Language:
Della Reese, 2001 CIP galley, p. 6 (b. Deloreese Patricia Early, July 6, 1931, Detroit)
Give it to God, 2006 disc label (Dell Reese Lett)
Her Black is beautiful [SR] 197 labels (Della Reese)
Individual was a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, Image Awards awardee, and Hollywood Walk of Fame inductee
Larkin, C. The encycl. of popular music, 3rd ed (b. Dellareese Taliaferro, July 6, 1932, Detroit)
New York times WWW site, viewed Nov. 20, 2017 (Della Reese; b. Delloreese Patricia Early, July 6, 1931, Detroit; d. Sunday night [Nov. 19, 2017], Encino, Calif., aged 86; 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 real life; appeared also in films)
Singers Actors Jazz musicians Clergy
Southern, E. Biog. dict. of Afro-American and African musicians, c1982 (b. Delloreese Patricia Early, July 6, 1932, Detroit)
Up Church website, accessed May 29, 2019 (Rev. Della Reese-Lett) https://upchurch.org/about-our-founder-rev-della-reese-lett/
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