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Marilyn Neeley

American pianist (1937–2007)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ56434082 ↗
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Marilyn Neeley (December 26, 1937 – May 30, 2007) was an American pianist. She won the Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year in Music award in 1963 and an Emmy Award in 1970.

Neeley studied under Ethel Leginska and Muriel Kerr.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1937, 2007, 1963, 1970—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1937-12-26. The account is most persuasive where Marilyn, Neeley and American can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as american pianist (1937–2007). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q56434082. VIAF identifies the subject as 78361777. The Library of Congress control number is no95023318. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1937, 2007, 1963 and 1970.

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This entry incorporates text from “Marilyn Neeley” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.