The singer died at unexpectedly Monday at her home in Henderson, Nevada.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mary Wilson, a founding member of The Supremes, has died. The singer’s publicist says she passed away suddenly and unexpectedly at her home outside Las Vegas on Monday night at age 76. The cause of her death was not immediately known. Founded as the Primettes in Detroit, the Supremes were one of the biggest musical acts of the 1960s with more than a dozen number one singles. “I remember instead of going home on the bus, we flew. That was our first plane ride. We flew home. We had really hit big,” Wilson said. Wilson, alongside Diana Ross and the late Florence Ballard, made up the original iconic Motown group, later inducted into the Roll and Roll Hall of Fame. But it wasn’t all glitz and glamor back then. “People were not very nice to me because I was Black.
