As per our current Database, Mary Lou Williams has been died on May 28, 1981 (age 71).
When Mary Lou Williams die, Mary Lou Williams was 71 years old.
Popular As | Mary Lou Williams |
Occupation | Pianist |
Age | 71 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
Born | May 8, 1910 (Atlanta, GA) |
Birthday | May 8 |
Town/City | Atlanta, GA |
Nationality | GA |
Mary Lou Williams’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Mary Lou Williams was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.
Pittsburghers lovingly called her 'the little piano girl of East Liberty.' She mentored Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk.
She was a professional musician by the time she reached her teens.
She collaborated with Duke Ellington, Art Blakey, and Benny Goodman, performing with the latter at his 1978 40th-anniversary Carnegie Hall concert.
She was born in Georgia, but her family moved to Pittsburgh's East Liberty neighborhood while she was still young.
She considered Lovie Austin to have influenced her the most.