Those immediately weighing in at the late hour to pay homage to Wilson ranged from Questlove to KISS’s Paul Stanley. Wilson had been preparing to spend some of the year joining in celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the Supremes, still the most iconic female singing trio of all time. Wilson had been highly visible in 2019, when she appeared on the 28th season of “Dancing With the Stars” and released “Supreme Glamour,” her fourth book.

She also promised upcoming interviews she had done about the Supremes’ experiences with segregation that she said were forthcoming in honor of Black History Month. “Hopefully some of that will be out on my birthday, March 6,” she said in the video. Just two days prior to her death, Wilson put up a video on her YouTube channel announcing that she was working with Universal Music on releasing solo material, including the unreleased album “Red Hot” she recorded in the 1970s with producer Gus Dudgeon. She was a trailblazer, a diva and will be deeply missed.” She was quite a star in her own right and over the years continued to work hard to boost the legacy of the Supremes. 1 hits, television and nightclub bookings, they opened doors for themselves, the other Motown acts, and many, many others. “The Supremes were always known as the ‘sweethearts of Motown.’ Mary, along with Diana Ross and Florence Ballard, came to Motown in the early 1960s. “I was extremely shocked and saddened to hear of the passing of a major member of the Motown family, Mary Wilson of the Supreme,” said Berry Gordy in a statement Monday night. Funeral services will be private because of COVID, he said, but there will be a public memorial later this year.

The circumstances of her death were not immediately revealed.

Wilson’s longtime publicist, Jay Schwartz, reported that she died suddenly. Vocalist Mary Wilson, who co-founded the Supremes as a 15-year-old in a Detroit housing project and stayed with the fabled, hitmaking Motown Records trio until its dissolution in 1977, died on Monday night at her home in Las Vegas.

Supreme Glamour by Mary Wilson