Lilette jenkins biography definition

As a great-great-grandmother, Lillette Jenkins-Wisner typically has a full house every Mother's Day.

And for the legendary, classically trained year-old concert pianist, it will end the way it always does — with a celebration of music.

"I'd play right up until I gave birth," Jenkins-Wisner recalls of her first captive audience, "and I could feel them kicking around in the womb.

They were dancing while I was playing."

Today — after raising five children, who gave her four grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren — the woman they all call "Gram" hopes she will leave a family legacy that comes as effortlessly as breathing.

"Music and laughter are the two most important things every human being possesses, whether they recognize it or they don't," she says.

"It's residential. It belongs to them. It lives there."

As usual, a small multitude of kinfolk will gather for Mother's Day to fete "Gram"