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  • Island Records artists
  • 20th-century American singers
  • American soul singers
  • 1950 births
  • 1999 deaths
  • 20th-century pianists
  • African-American female singer-songwriters
  • African-American pianists
  • American boogie musicians
  • American dance musicians
  • American disco musicians
  • American rhythm and blues singer-songwriters
  • Musicians from Oklahoma
  • People from Okemah, Oklahoma
  • Deaths from uterine cancer
  • Cancer deaths in New Jersey
  • Burials at Fairmount Cemetery (Newark, New Jersey)
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  • Soul singerBorn on 14.07.1950 in Okemah, OklahomaDied on 03.02.1999 Raised in Newark, New Jersey. In school, she studied classical music, and her father began teaching her piano when she was eight years old. By the early 1970s, she had joined vocal groups such as The Ebonettes and the Matchmakers, meanwhile working as an elementary school teacher. When a backup singer scheduled to sing on Aretha Franklin's 1974 single %22I'm in Love%22 fell ill, Guthrie took the vocalist's place beside Cissy Houston; thus Guthrie would happily state that her career on record began %22at the top%22.She died of uterine cancer on February 3, 1999, at the age of 48, and was interred in Fairmount Cemetery in Newark, New Jersey.
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  • Gwendolyn Anthony %22Gwen%22 Guthrie (July 9, 1950 - February 3, 1999) was an American singer-songwriter and pianist, who also sang backing vocals for Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Peter Tosh, and Madonna, among others, and who wrote songs made famous by Ben E. King, Angela Bofill and Roberta Flack.
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  • 1950-07-14
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