Wesla Whitfield

Wesla Whitfield
A young white woman with a teased 1970s hairdo
Wesla Whitfield, from a 1976 newspaper
Born
Weslia Marie Edwards

(1947-09-15)September 15, 1947
Santa Maria, California, U.S.
DiedFebruary 9, 2018(2018-02-09) (aged 70)
St. Helena, California, U.S.
OccupationSinger

Wesla Whitfield (born Weslia Marie Edwards, September 15, 1947 – February 9, 2018)[1] was an American singer who recorded more than a score of albums and performed at Carnegie Hall and the White House, among other sites. She used a wheelchair for the last four decades of her life, after surviving a gunshot injury. She specialized in the American standards genre of music.

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