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Maxwell was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a Haitian mother and a Puerto Rican father. His mother grew up in a devout Baptist household in Haiti. [11] [12] [13] Maxwell's father died in a plane crash around 1976 or 1977 when Maxwell was three years old. [14] Maxwell grew up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York. [15]
Marvel Marilyn Maxwell [1] (August 3, 1921 – March 20, 1972) was an American actress and entertainer. In a career that spanned the 1940s and 1950s, [ 2 ] she appeared in several films and radio programs, and entertained the troops during World War II and the Korean War on USO tours with Bob Hope .
Baciliky Andris "Betty" Maxwell (née Cantrell; born September 1, 1994) is an American singer, actress, model, author, and beauty pageant titleholder from Warner Robins, Georgia, who was crowned Miss Georgia 2015. [1] On September 13, 2015, she was crowned Miss America 2016 by Miss America 2015, Kira Kazantsev.
Charmayne Maxena Maxwell (January 11, 1969 – February 28, 2015 [1]), professionally known as Maxee, was a Guyana-born American singer and songwriter. In the mid-1990s, Maxwell came to prominence as a member of the female R&B trio Brownstone .
Holle Thee Maxwell (born Holly Maxwell; October 17, 1945) is an American singer and songwriter. Maxwell has performed with soul and blues artist Ike Turner and jazz organist Jimmy Smith . Maxwell wrote a song for Bobby Bland 's 1978 album, Come Fly with Me .
Stella Maynes Maxwell was born in Brussels on 15 May 1990, the daughter of Northern Irish parents from Belfast. [3] Her mother is Stella (née Maynes) and her father is retired diplomat Maurice Maxwell, who served as the former head of the European Commission in Belfast. [4] [5] Maxwell was named after her mother. [4]
"Pretty Wings" is a single by American singer-songwriter Maxwell, taken from his fourth studio album BLACKsummers'night. It was written and produced by Maxwell and Hod David. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and was nominated at the 52nd Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best R&B Song.
Elisabeth Jenny Jeanne Maxwell (née Meynard; 11 April 1921 – 7 August 2013) was a French-born researcher of the Holocaust who established the journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies in 1987. [1] She was married to publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell from 1945 until his death in 1991 when the family came under scrutiny for his business dealings ...