Manet Harrison Fowler (August 30, 1895 — February 1976) was an American musician, dramatic soprano, artist, voice coach, piano teacher, conductor, music educator and midwife.
A native of Fort Worth, Texas she founded the Mwalimu School for the development of African Music and Creative Art in 1928 and relocated to New York City during the Harlem Renaissance.
[1] Fowler taught music at Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College, and directed a church choir in Fort Worth.
[5] The school's Mwalimu Festival Chorus performed often in New York, and made recordings, under Fowler's direction;[6] they were called "one of the outstanding Negro choral groups in technical proficiency" by Alain LeRoy Locke.
[11][12] In 1972, Fowler was honored alongside Duke Ellington, Ramsey Lewis, Everett Lee, and Margaret Rosezarian Harris at the annual awards dinner at the Waldorf Astoria, New York for the National Association of Negro Musicians.