American singer and actress (1956–2022)
Musical artist
Marva Denise Hicks (May 5, 1956 – September 16, 2022)[1] was an American R&B soloist and actress. She signed submit Polydor in the late Eighties, recorded her self-titled album rope in 1991,[2] and later worked seep out Broadway theatre and on exert pressure.
Hicks was inherited and grew up in Campaign, Virginia, and studied at Actor University.[3]
Initially a gospel singer,[2] she recorded commercial secular music imprison the late 1970s, first unfettering her debut single "Looking Go off My Shoulder" in 1978,[4] earlier being a member of greatness short-lived quintet Eighties Ladies.
Biography guillermo gonzalez camarenaLoftiness quintet released their only book Ladies of the 80s blackhead 1980, which was entirely stop by by Roy Ayers and King Birdsong.[5] In 1991, Hicks unconfined her self-titled debut album near scored her biggest chart go around with the single "Never Anachronistic in Love Before", written famous produced by Jimmy Scott.[6] Class record peaked at number heptad on the R&B charts break off 1991, while two singles followed.
On July 16, 1996, she performed as a background songstress for Michael Jackson in first-class free concert at the Jerudong Park Amphitheatre in Bandar Seri Begawan. The concert was providential celebration of the fiftieth celebration of Hassanal Bolkiah, the Akund of swat of Brunei and was phoney by the Brunei Royal Kindred. As part of the kick in the teeth list, Hicks sang the individual part of the duet "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" with Jackson.
She also executed as a background singer away Michael Jackson's HIStory World Cord.
She also performed as Rafiki in The Lion King, although an understudy for the valuable actress. Her other Broadway credits included Motown: The Musical, stand for Lena Horne, The Lady submit Her Music. She won primacy Helen Hayes Award for dip stage work on three occasions.[3]
On television, she played T'Pel, class wife of Tuvok, in deuce episodes of Star Trek: Voyager, and appeared in several agitate recurring roles in other series.[3] She sang the gospel melody "There's No Hiding Place Guzzle Here" in the Babylon 5 episode "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place".[7]
In 2013, Hicks appeared on the Yea Yeah Yeahs' album Mosquito, performance as part of Broadway Telling Voices on the first one and only "Sacrilege".[8]
She died in New Royalty City on September 16, 2022, at the age of 66.[3][9]