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She also appeared in the musical theater productions, including The Wizard of Oz as Dorothy , crossing racial lines in a recently desegregated school system.For college, Wilson attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University.

Although she continued to perform originals and standards, she adopted songs as diverse as Robert Johnson’s “Come On in My Kitchen”, Joni Mitchell’s “Black Crow”, The Monkees’ “Last Train to Clarksville”, and Hank Williams’ “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”.Not only did Wilson effectively reconnect vocal jazz with its blues roots, she was arguably the first to convincingly fashion post-British Invasion pop into jazz, trailblazing a path that many have since followed.

In 1999 she produced Traveling Miles as a tribute to Davis.

For many years she and her son lived in Harlem, New York, in an apartment that once belonged to jazz great Duke Ellington.[2]In 2000, Wilson married actor Isaach de Bankolé, who directed her in the concert film Cassandra Wilson (2000).Wilson and her mother are members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.Received honorary doctorate in the Arts from Millsaps College, 2003Named “America’s Best Singer” by Time Magazine in 2001Female Jazz Vocalist of the Year, Down Beat magazine, 1994-1996.

Working with mentors who included elder statesmen Earl Turbinton, Alvin Batiste, and Ellis Marsalis, Wilson found encouragement to seriously pursue jazz performance and moved to the New York City area the following year.There her focus turned towards improvisation.

In 1989 Wilson performed as the opening act for Davis at the JVC Jazz Festival in Chicago.