Included among lives Sevilla touched were a D.C. couple for whom she helped raise over $40,000 to find a place to rent in 2019.
Englert opened or helped open dozens of bars across the city, especially on H Street NE and U Street.
She led the band Maiesha and the Hip Huggers, which was part of a resurgence in popularity of go-go in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Mar 20, 2017
Local Jazz Legend Buck Hill Dies At 90
Buck Hill, the “Wailin’ Mailman,” played with jazz luminaries and mentored many of D.C.’s jazz musicians.
A Virginia man’s obituary asked for team players to be his pallbearers “so they can let him down one last time.”
Oct 21, 2014
Famed Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee Dies
He was 93.
Thomas, the tireless White House correspondent who covered every president from Kennedy to Obama, died at her apartment in Washington on Saturday following a long illness.
The legendary trumpeter Donald Byrd died February 4 in Dover, Del. Byrd, whose career blended jazz, soul, funk and rhythm and blues, was 80.
Dec 12, 2012
Local Media Boss Joe Allbritton Dies at 87
Joe Allbritton, the founder of the media company that bears his name, died today at hospital in Houston.
