Dr. Marlena Smalls
"THE VOICE OF GULLAH"
Actress. Speaker. Singer. Historian. Educator. Entertainer.
THE ARTIST
FILM & TELEVISION
NBC The Today Show
ABC Good Morning America
CBS This Morning
TNN The Crook & Chase Show
Paramount Pictures Forrest Gump
SCET Multicultural: The Hallelujah Singers
PBS God’s Gonna Trouble the Water
SCETV/GPTV Voices of the Gullah Culture: The Hallelujah Singers
Discovery Channel The Travelers
AWARDS
Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award
South Carolina Ambassadors of Tourism 1998
South Carolina Folk Heritage Advocacy Award
Alpha Kappa Community Service Award
Rockford Mayor’s Award
South Carolina Black Hall of Fame 2004
Governor’s Award for the Arts
Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Award 2007
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PERFORMANCES
Queen of England
United States Congress
Kennedy Center
The Smithsonian
G-8 Summit
En el Jazz Voyeur Festival, Auditorium de Palma de Mallorca
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