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Wayman Tisdale
Bass guitarist and NBA veteran Wayman Tisdale passed on May 15, 2009 at the age of 44, after a two-year battle with bone cancer. Tisdale was a three-time All-American at Oklahoma, spent 12 seasons in the NBA, and was part of the gold medal winning 1984 US
Date: 05/18/2009
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(Harold) Eugene Smith
(Harold) Eugene Smith, one of the original Roberta Martin Singers, passed away on May 9th, 2009 in Chicago, at the age of 88. Smith joined the Roberta Martin Singers (then known as the Martin and Fry Singers) in 1933, and in 1949, began managing the fam
Date: 05/10/2009
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Rev. Timothy Wright
Gospel great and Godfather of Gospel, Rev. Timothy Wright passed away at the age of 61, on April 23, 2009 at the Bronx Veterans Hospital. . The Grammy-nominated Wright fought a courageous battle back to health from critical injuries he sustained in a ca
Date: 04/24/2009
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David Winans Sr. (Pop Winans)
After initially suffering a heart attack and stroke in October 2008, David Winans, Sr. (Pop Winans), the patriarch of the musical dynasty, The Winans Family, passed away quietly in Nashville, TN on April 8th, 2009, with wife, Delores Winans at his bedsid
Date: 04/08/2009
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Shirley Joiner
Shirley Joiner, the last living member of BCS and co-founder of the Southeast Inspirational Choir, passed to glory on March 16th, 2009. Joiner, an adept musician , singer/songwriter and choir master first came to prominence as a member of the innovative g
Date: 03/16/2009
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Ethel Holloway
Legendary Chicago gospel vocalist Ethel Holloway passed away on January 27, 2009. A long-time member of the famed Jessy Dixon Singers, Holloway came into her own as a lead singer recording with Reverend Milton Brunson's Thompson Community Singers. During
Date: 01/28/2009
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Rev. Claude Jeter
Rev. Claude Jeter, founder of The Swan Silvertones, passed away on January 6th, 2009, in the Bronx, at the age of 94. Born in 1914 in Birmingham, Alabama, Jeter reigned as on of Gospel's stars in the 1940s through to the 1960s, his distinctive falsetto f
Date: 01/10/2009
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Tommy Ellison
Tommy Ellison of the Tommy Ellison & The Singing Stars passed away on Saturday January 3, 2009, after an illness. Born in Salley, SC, Ellison began by singing background for Madame Edna Gallmon Cooke's, as a part of her group, The Five Singing Stars
Date: 01/05/2009
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Olivia McClurkin
After a nine-year battle with cancer, vocalist Olivia McClurkin (sister of Donnie McClurkin, and member of Zomba Gospel's The McClurkin Project) went home to be with the Lord on Nov. 4th, 2008. She leaves behind a grandmother, mother, father, two brothers
Date: 11/06/2008
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