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The Nelons were started by founding member Rex Nelon as The Rex Nelon Singers in 1977. [3] The group was a spin-off of the family group The Lefevres.They became known as The Rex Nelon Singers in 1976 because the Lefevre family members left the group.
On February 19, 1992, the Gaither Vocal Band had just wrapped up a recording session in a Nashville, Tennessee, working on an album called Homecoming, which featured many of the great voices of southern gospel music: The Speers, The Gatlins, Jake Hess, The Cathedrals, Howard & Vestal Goodman, Buck Rambo, Eva Mae Lefevre, James Blackwood, Hovie Lister, Jim Hill, and J.D. Sumner & The Stamps.
In 1955, Nelon was hired to sing bass with the Homeland Harmony Quartet.In 1957, he joined the LeFevres, one of the legendary family groups of southern gospel music.In 1975, he assumed the direction of The LeFevres, which eventually became known as the Rex Nelon Singers, now called the Nelons. [1]
Three members of the Georgia-based family gospel group, the Nelons, are among seven people killed in a plane crash in Wyoming Friday, according to a statement from Gaither Music Group, the family ...
The Nelons were inducted into the Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame in 2016 and were winners of 10 GMA Dove Awards, including multiple song of the year and album of the year awards. Show ...
On Instagram, Gaither Management Group wrote: “One of the best loved Gospel music families in America, The Nelons were involved in a tragic, fatal plane crash on Friday afternoon on their way to ...
It was also the first album of the vocal band ever to feature only songs written by Bill and Gloria Gaither. A live album called Better Day was released in January 2010. In August 2010, they released the long-awaited album called Greatly Blessed , followed by I Am A Promise , a children's album, released in August 2011.
Bill Gaither was born in Alexandria, Indiana, in 1936 to George and Lela Gaither.He formed his first group the Bill Gaither Trio (consisting of Bill, his sister Mary Ann (1945–2018), [1] and brother Danny Gaither (1938–2001) in 1956 while a college student at Anderson College, to which he had transferred after one year at Taylor University.