passe
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She learned her motto, “No is a vitamin,” from industry executive Suzanne de Passe while singing back-up for Motown.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2021
It’s Peele’s first writing and directing project, and it makes him the first black winner in the category, and only the fourth nominated, after John Singleton, Spike Lee, and Suzanne de Passe.
From The Verge • Mar. 4, 2018
Only one other black woman has been nominated for screenwriting before: Suzanne de Passe for 1972’s Lady Sings the Blues, in the Best Original Screenplay category.
From Slate • Feb. 27, 2018
In his autobiography, “To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown,” Mr. Gordy recalled that he had first heard of the Jackson 5 through his creative assistant, Suzanne de Passe.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2017
It was the scene pictured by Détaille in Le Régiment quì Passe.
From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by Hosmer, James Kendall
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