
The Fellowship Choir featuring Sister Loretta Oliver calls Chicago home, refered to by it's members as "the ship", Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church was founded by Rev. Dr. Clay Evans in 1950.
He has and is a leader in the Civil Rights Movement since 1965. He is the Founding National Board Chairman of Operation, (PUSH) and he held this position for five years. Reverend Evans has been a featured soloist on albums with the Voice Choir of the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church and with the Voice Choir of the African American Religious Connection(AARC), winning the 1996 Stellar Award for Best Gospel Album of the Year, which included the song "I've Got a Testimony". Reverend Evans retired on December 8, 2000 as the Pastor of the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church and now holds the title of Founder and Senior Pastor of the church.
Sister Tharpe was a pioneering Gospel singer, songwriter and recording artist who attained great popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with a unique mixture of spiritual lyrics and early rock accompaniment. She became the first great recording star of Gospel music in the late 1930s and also became known as the "original soul sister" of recorded music.
Willing to cross the line between sacred and secular by performing her inspirational music of 'light' in the 'darkness' of the nightclubs and concert halls with big bands behind her, her witty, idiosyncratic style also left a lasting mark on more conventional gospel artists, such as Ira Tucker, Sr., of the Dixie Hummingbirds.
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Is yours that choir that moves people from the pews to their feet Sunday morning, or are you the soloist whose seven-octave voice or baritone keeps them spellbound in the sanctuary?
For $25 and the nerve, yours could be the next face on a CD cover.......

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Is looking for the best church choirs in America, and welcome people of all faiths to participate. Your choir could win cash prizes of up to $50,000, and the chance to claim the Verizon Wireless V CAST People’s Choice Award, with your choir’s performance featured on V CAST.
The deadline to enter your choir is now August 6, 2008
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