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Doris Troy
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Hilarious Hunting and Fishing Cartoons
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1937
- Active to
- 2004
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- Listeners
- 153,170
- Total plays
- 664,008
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Doris Troy (January 6, 1937 – February 16, 2004) was an American Rhythm & Blues singer, known to her many fans as "Mama Soul". She was born as Doris Elaine Higginsen, in The Bronx, the daughter of a Barbadian Pentecostal minister. She later took her grandmother's name and grew up as Doris Payne. Her parents disapproved of "subversive" forms of music like rhythm & blues, so she cut her teeth singing in her father's choir. She was working as an usherette at the Apollo where she was discovered by
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Distinct types of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma identified by gene expression profiling
· 2000 · cited 7,848x
- Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status and conservation challenges
· 2006 · cited 7,044x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,481x
- Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 5,039x
- The International HapMap Project
· 2003 · cited 4,910x
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- date of birth
- 1937-01-06
- date of death
- 2004-02-16
- start of work period
- 1962-00-00
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