Julia (McGirt) Nixon (1955 - 2021)

Born 7 Feb 1955 in Scotland, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Died 29 Sep 2021 at age 66 in Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

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Julia Nixon, a singer, songwriter, and actress who got her start singing at D.C. bars and nightclubs in the 1970s before becoming an internationally recognized vocalist who played the lead role in the Broadway musical “Dreamgirls” in 1983, died Sept. 29 at a hospital in Raleigh, N.C. of complications associated with COVID-19, according to her longtime D.C. friend Craig Henson. She was 66. (From the Washington Blade Obituary)

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Julia Nixon

Birth Record (1955)

Name: Julia Carol Mcgirt
Sex: Female
Birth Date: 07 Feb 1955
Birthplace: Scotland, North Carolina
Race: Colored
Father's Name: John Neila Mcgirt
Mother's Name: Julia Smith
Other Event Place: Laurinburg

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
John Neila Mcgirt Father M
Julia Smith Mother F

"North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VHR1-RY8 : 8 December 2014), Julia Carol Mcgirt, 07 Feb 1955; from "North Carolina, Birth and Death Indexes, 1800-2000," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2005); citing vol. 43, p. 142, Scotland, North Carolina, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.

Obituaries

Julia Nixon, who headlined in D.C. nightclubs, dies at 66: Obituary in the Washington Post, published 9 October 2021.

D.C. singer turned Broadway star Julia Nixon dies at 66: obituary in the Washington Blade, published 5 October 2021.