MARY WILSON: Legendary Supreme as busy as ever with career, being a grandmother and philanthropic work.

      The incomparable star still tours and performs for her many fans and finds herself entertaining her eight grandchildren, too.

      Taking a moment out of her Las Vegas schedule, the Motown superstar chatted with EUR’s Lee Bailey about the work she’s doing on and off the stage.

      “I’m very, very busy right now,” she said. “I’ve been appointed the spokesperson for this company called Humpty Dumpty Institute, where we travel around the world speaking out on unexploded land minds. It’s something that [has taken me to] Vietnam and Sri Lanka. And I’m presently coming to LA to finish my new CD that I’m working on with the Holland Brothers.”

      Wilson feels really good about working for such a good cause and good about still doing her music. However, she admits that what gives her the most joy is spending time with her grandchildren.

      “I’m having a great time. I have all these grandchildren,” she said. “I have a chance to go out and tour and then come home and be a grandma, which is really kind of fun. I’ve traveled so much; I’ve done so much, but I’m just as busy as ever.”

      Motown fans might find it hard to picture Mary Wilson as a grandmother, but the singer fits the role perfectly. As for her role as a legendary singer, well, that’s taking her grandchildren some time to get used to.

       “It’s only just getting started now,” she said of her grandkids recognizing her superstar status. “When I’m home, I’m really grandmom. They don’t really know much about it. Sometimes I work in Vegas and I bring them to see the show and they see me up on stage and it doesn’t look like grandma at all. I bring them up on stage. They’re staring at me saying, ‘This is grandma, but it’s not grandma.’ I guess they’re just starting to get that grandmom is somebody special.”

      Wilson, 64, is certainly doing something special for victims of landmines. She is working with Humpty Dumpty International, to help raise awareness and funds for landmine clearance projects around the globe.

      “After close to 50 years of singing, getting awards, and traveling, I felt that I needed to do things that were rewarding in a different kind of way just so it keeps me doing things that are good,” Wilson said of her philanthropic work. “So early on after the Supremes disbanded, I started taking on other endeavors like charities. These things became more and more important in my life.”

      Wilson was appointed as an ambassador by then Secretary of State Colin Powell and spoke about AIDS awareness in Africa and other causes.

      “Then the Humpty Dumpty people asked me if I would become a part of their organization because they had seen what I’d done as and Ambassador,” she said. “They asked me to be a representative of their organization to spread the word about unexploded landmine clearances.”

       While a Culture Connect Ambassador, Wilson also became involved in pushing through important legislation such as the Truth in Music Bill.

      “The Truth in Music Bill has to do with people using the names of famous groups as their own,” she explained.

      She was one of the celebs that started the grassroots movement of the bill as she, along with a number of ‘50s groups, were finding that people using their group names.

      “You could see three or four Supremes [groups], lots of Temptations. We felt there was nothing there to protect us. So we got together with the Vocal Group Hall of Fame and we started putting this initiative together to stop these people from using our names. It’s really great that this bill has passed. In other words, if you did not record the music, then you cannot call your group by the name on the recording; you have to be a tribute group.”

      There is one fictionally famous group, however, that Wilson says is using the story of the Supremes that she can’t do much about. It’s widely accepted that the play/movie “Dreamgirls” is based on the story of the Supremes, though Motown founder Berry Gordy has spoken out about the similarities and implications.

      “I was always a bit concerned that it was so close to the Supremes,” Wilson said, “but yet and still, no one said it was.”

      Apparently, one good turn deserved another. After the play hit Broadway in the 1980s, Wilson was working on her first book.

      “I didn’t have a title for it, so I called my book ‘Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme.’ We had a little litigation conversation – their people and my people. I said, ‘You guys have a lot of the Supremes information there, but you’re not saying it is the Supremes,’ so they just let it drop.”

      Wilson did say she thought the film was a great piece of art and a beautiful film, without endorsing the storyline.

      “It definitely was not the story of Motown,” she said. “It was not 100% the story of the Supremes, but there was a lot they took from us. My whole thing is that someone took our story, but did not really give us the acknowledgment that it was our story. There should be a story of the Supremes.”

      For Mary Wilson’s story and the latest on Motown’s 50th anniversary, check out her website at www.marywilson.com

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