Della Reese

She is a spokeswoman of the American Diabetes Association, travelling around the United States to raise awareness about the disease. Their latest album, "Across the Concrete Sky," is available through their website. Della Reese announced, at the Larry King show in 2002, that she suffers from Type-2 Diabetes. They continued to tour and record into the new millennium, with much success throughout south-east Asia where romantic ballads remain particularly popular. She has had a number of other acting jobs since that series began. In 1991 the duo regrouped and recorded "The Earth Is," containing their hit single "Without You." The album was followed by "The Vanishing Race" in 1993, "News from Nowhere" in 1995, and "Now and Forever: Greatest Hits Live," a CD and DVD recording of a live concert in Taipai, Taiwan, also in 1995. Her participation in this series has given her popularity among the younger audiences as well. During the mid-80's the band continued to have minor hits in the US, including "Just As I Am," "The Power of Love," and "Lonely is the Night." After recording "The Christmas Album" in 1987 Russell and Hitchcock separated and went their separate ways for several years.

In 1994, she began participating in the television hit Touched by an Angel, where she plays Tess. It was quickly followed by three more hit albums, "The One That You Love," "Now and Forever," and "Greatest Hits.". In 1989, she starred alongside Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall and Robin Givens in the Harlem Nights movie, playing Vera. Their 1980 album "Lost In Love" released their music to an American audience for the first time, and contained three US Top Five singles, including the title track, "Every Woman In The World", and "All Out of Love" (sample). Reese did voice overs from 1988 to 1991 in the A Pup Named Scooby Doo television cartoon. Jeremy Paul left the band during this tour. In 1979, she played Ms. Lydia Branch in the critically acclaimed series Roots: The Next Generations. Hammond left the band, to be replaced by Jeremy Paul in time for the group's first Australian hit single, "Love and Other Bruises." This single was followed by a self-titled debut album that reached Gold status in Australia, numerous other top 40 hits, and an American tour opening for Rod Stewart.

where she played Della Rogers from 1976 to 1978. Later that year, the duo, along with Chrissie Hammond, formed Air Supply. Four more acting jobs preceded her participation in Chico and the Man. The duo met in May, 1975, when performing in the Australian production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Jesus Christ Superstar. In 1973, she had her first acting experience, in The Voyage of the Yes, as Opal. Air Supply are a duo of pop musicians, Englishman Graham Russell and Australian Russell Hitchcock, who had a succession of soft-rock ballad hits throughout the English-speaking world through the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1969, she was given her first shot at television stardom, when she starred on the Della show, hosting the program.

In 1987, she was nominated for an Emmy as a gospel singer. In 1983, she married Thomas Lett Jr., to whom she is still married. She later forned a band named Meditation Singers. She would later join famous gospel singer Mahalia Jackson.

Reese, a Christian, began singing at the age of six. Della Reese (born Delloreese Patricia Early on July 6, 1931 in Detroit, Michigan), is a famous African American actress.