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Kelly Hogan, an old friend of Leitman's, offered to provide music for the film and soundtrack, and recorded songs with the combo, The Corn Sisters, Carolyn Mark and Neko Case. [4] While recording, Case discovered that Ella Waldek was her great-aunt, which was previously unknown to her.
As children in Cleveland, the Jones sisters began singing gospel music in front of their church in the early 1950s, encouraged by their parents Howard and Wanda Jones. [3] They quickly began singing on local television programs and at other churches; during this time they officially names themselves "The Jones Sisters Trio. [ 3 ]
Video Gospel is a television series that aired on BET featuring gospel music videos.It began airing during the 1989 season. It also aired from 2000-2005 and 2010-2011. It originally began airing as the companion series to Video Soul, which aired on BET from 1981 to 1996.
The Statesmen Quartet (also known as Hovie Lister and The Statesmen Quartet) were an American southern gospel quartet founded in 1948 by Baptist Minister Hovie Lister.Along with the Blackwood Brothers, the Statesmen Quartet were considered the most successful and influential gospel quartet of the 1950s and 1960s and had a wide influence on artists during that time from the gospel, country, pop ...
In 1963, Clara Ward was the second gospel singer to sing gospel songs on Broadway in Langston Hughes' play Tambourines to Glory (the first being her former group members, which were known as the Stars of Faith, which starred Langston Hughes in the first Gospel stage play and first play that featured an all black cast to be produced on Broadway ...
The Gospel Stars consisted of Mae, Etta, and Sandra Gooch, Elizabeth Davis, Lillian Woods, and Lois Holden. [4] Holden (née Russell), who was born in Thomaston, Alabama on February 2, 1910, died in Detroit, Michigan on May 5, 2020, aged 110 years, making her a supercentenarian. She was the last surviving member of the group. [5] [6]
They also recorded a version of "O Little Town of Bethlehem," using the music of The Animals' "The House of the Rising Sun" - an unusual blending. [ 2 ] In September 2013, 50 years after the Joystrings' formation, group member Sylvia Dalziel published her memoir, The Joystrings: The Story of the Salvation Army Pop Group .
In 2005, the Grammys honored her contributions to the Gospel music industry. R.E.A.- Robert Estevis Award for the album, The Caravans, Paved The Way . She is also a recipient of a 2005 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts , which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.