Mary Esther Wells was born in Detroit in 1943, and her childhood was anything but easy. She battled spinal meningitis as a toddler, survived tuberculosis as a teen, and endured long hospital stays that nearly silenced her before she ever sang a note. Music wasn’t just an interest—it was an escape hatch, a way out of pain and into possibility.

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