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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1939
- Active to
- 2009
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Discography
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Viola Wills was a Toronto-based international recording artist who started her career off at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. She later worked with Barry White, Joe Cocker, Smokey Robinson and many other established recording artistes until she recorded her first album of her own original songs "Soft Centers" in London England. Her first major break into the mainstream came with her version of "Gonna Get Along Without You Now" which started a string of dance hits and Viola's subsequent
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mae
- Family name
- Wilkerson
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Watts
- Place of death
- Phoenix
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Genre
- pop music
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.violawills.com
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- date of death
- 2009-05-06
- date of birth
- 1939-12-30
- cause of death
- cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1965-00-00
- pseudonym
- Viola Wills
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