Editing Carol Lynn Maillard

{{short description|American actress, singer, and composer (born March 4, 1951)}}
{{Infobox musical artist
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| birth_date      = {{birth date and age |1951|03|04}}
| death_date      = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|1951|MM|DD}} (death date then birth) -->
| origin          = [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]
| instrument      = Voice
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| occupation      = composer, singer, musician, actress
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| label           = Appleseed/Earthbeat/MFLP, Redwood Records, Flying Fish/Rounder, Rykodisc
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'''Carol Lynn Maillard''' (Born: March 4, 1951) is an American actress, singer, and composer. She is one of the founding members of the [[Grammy Award]]-winning [[a cappella]] ensemble [[Sweet Honey in the Rock]]. first joining/staying in the group from 1973 to 1977 and then rejoined in 1990. she has been in [[Sweet Honey In The Rock]] ever seen then.

==Early life and education==
Born and raised in [[Philadelphia]], Maillard was a student of the GESU SCHOOL in Philadelphia and also graduated from John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls' High School. She graduated from [[The Catholic University of America]] with a major in theater in 1973.

==Career==
===Stage and Screen===
Maillard has acting credits that include roles on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] (''[[Eubie!]]'', ''Comin' Uptown'', ''Beehive''); [[Off-Broadway]] (in several [[Negro Ensemble Company]] productions like [[Zooman and The Sign|Zooman and the Sign]], and in [[New York Shakespeare Festival]] productions); television (''[[For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf]]'',<ref>{{cite news |first=John J. |last=O'Connor |title=TV: 'For Colored Girls' on 'American Playhouse' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/23/arts/tv-for-colored-girls-on-american-playhouse.html |work=New York Times |date=1982-02-23 }}</ref> ''[[Hallelujah! (TV series)|Hallelujah!]]''); and film (''[[Beloved (1998 film)|Beloved]]'', ''[[Thirty to Life]]''). Much of her career has involved participating in works that are [[Afrocentrism|Afro-centric]] and steeped in African American orality, as well as uplift and support of Black culture<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Boston|first1=Taquiena|last2=Katz|first2=Vera|title=Witnesses to a Possibility: The Black Theater Movement in Washington, D. C., 1968-1976|journal=Black American Literature Forum|date=1983|volume=17|issue=1|pages=22–26|doi=10.2307/2904164|jstor=2904164}}</ref>

===Music===
She is a founding member of the group [[Sweet Honey in the Rock]], and has composed and arranged many of that group's songs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sweethoneyintherock.org/licensing-permissions/|title=Sweet Honey in the Rock Licensing and Permissions|website=Sweet Honey in the Rock Official Website|access-date=9 Mar 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Cultures in Contention|last=Reagon|first=Bernice Johnson|publisher=Real Comet Press|year=1985|isbn=9780941104067|editor-last=Kahn|editor-first=Douglas|location=Seattle, WA|pages=176–177|chapter=Power of Communal Song}}</ref> Maillard has described the creation of that group as something connecting to the social movements of the time, but also equally inspired by contemporary experimental theater and contemporary popular music.<ref>{{Cite news|title=When the Obamas are among your biggest fans it's just Sweet|last=Thomas|first=Sarah|date=17 July 2015|work=The Age|location=Melbourne, Australia|page=33}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=We Who Believe in Freedom: Sweet Honey in the Rock Still on the Journey|last1=Reagon|first1=Bernice Johnson|last2=Sweet Honey in the Rock|publisher=Anchor Books|year=1993|isbn=9780385468619|location=New York|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/wewhobelieveinfr00reag}}</ref> That group has been nominated for a Grammy multiple times, won a Grammy Award for their contribution to the Smithsonian Folkways [[Folkways: A Vision Shared|A Vision Shared]] album, and have won multiple Washington Area Music Awards Wammies<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wamadc.com/wama/wammies/WAMI-abc-o-s.htm|title=Wammie Winners 1985 - 2012 Alphabetical List|last=Schreibman|first=Mike|date=5 Jul 2013|website=Washington Area Music Association|access-date=10 Mar 2017}}</ref> Most of her solo compositions are published via 4 Jagelish Music.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Maillard|first=Carol Lynn|year=2003|title="The Women Gather"|journal=Sing Out!}}</ref>

In addition to composing and performing with Sweet Honey in the Rock, she has also been a guest vocalist for other artists, including [[Horace Silver]] and [[Betty Buckley]].

==Personal life==
Maillard has a son, Jordan Maillard Ware, who is also a Los Angeles-based musician. He appears with her in the documentary [[Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hayes|first=Eileen|year=2006|title=Not Your Mother's Racial Uplift: Sweet Honey in the Rock, Journey, and Representation: Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice|journal=Women Music|volume=10|issue=3|pages=71–79,124|issn=1090-7505|via=ProQuest LLC}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://lortel.org/Archives/CreditableEntity/9423 Carol Lynn Maillard] at [[Internet Off-Broadway Database]]
*{{IMDb name|0537577}}

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