Harlean Harris Wilson, widow of the legendary R&B singer Jackie Wilson and a top model in the 1950s and ’60s, died Saturday at 81. She passed away less than two week before she was to rep…
She passed away less than two week before she was to represent her late husband, who died in 1984, at his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony Sept. 4.
Wilson, who was Dec. 20, 1937, was well known as a model before marrying the singer, appearing on the covers of magazines like Ebony, Jet and Hue, and appearing in celebrity columns for dating Sam Cooke, Ronald Isley and Sammy Davis, Jr. before wedding Wilson. “I’m so elated for him, so ecstatic about my husband getting this star,” she said of her husband, who was a second-year inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “That title Mr. Excitement wasn’t just given to him; he worked for it.” She remembered her husband as “very vibrant, very effervescent, generous to a fault. He loved to sing and he loved life.”
“I had never heard a black entertainer sing on Jackie’s level, at all,” she said. “Nobody had.” Eventually she received a phone call from Jackie, whose memory of her from the fan club was jogged by seeing her on the cover of Ebony. Several years after becoming a couple, in May 1967, they wed.In 1975, Jackie Wilson suffered a massive heart attack while singing at a New Jersey nightclub, and was rushed, in a coma, to a nearby hospital.
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