Wallis willis biography of mahatma

She started singing since she was a child and eventually went professional as she grew up. While she was married to pastor Jamill Willis from until their divorce in , she was known as Maranda Curtis Willis. Early life. Maranda Curtis was born on August 4, , in Miami as the fourth of seven children of pastor W. Curtis and Darlene Curtis.

Swing low, sweet chariot Coming for to carry me home Swing low, sweet chariot Coming for to carry me home. I looked over Jordan, and what did I see Coming for to carry me home? A band of angels coming after me Coming for to carry me home. If you get there before I do Coming for to carry me home Tell all my friends I coming too Coming for to carry me home.

I'm sometimes up, I'm sometimes down Coming for to carry me home But still my soul feels heavenly bound Coming for to carry me home. Willis and his wife Minerva were often invited to sing for students of the Old Spencer Academy, a Choctaw boarding school. Alexander Reid heard Willis sing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and others during his tenure as a minister at the academy.

The a cappella choir from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee [7] was touring to raise funds for the university. Reid offered the songs he had heard years before to the troupe, crediting Willis. He died, probably in what is now Atoka County, Oklahoma, as his unmarked grave is located there. Prior to the Civil War , Willis and his wife, Aunt Minerva, were sent by their owner to work at the Spencer Academy where the superintendent, Reverend Alexander Reid, heard them singing.

In Reid was at a performance of the Jubilee Singers and thought the songs he had heard the Willises singing were better than those of the Jubilee Singers. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikidata item.

Wallis willis biography of mahatma

American songwriter. Compositions [ edit ]. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. Britt Willis, a prominent citizen of the Choctaw Nation and well-to-do slaveholder living in the vicinity of Doaksville. Grandfather was a sweet singer. He made up songs and sung 'em. Reid, a white man, liked dem ones de best and he could play music and he helped grandfather to keep dese two songs.

I loves to hear 'em. Wilson School house.