Sunday, April 24, 2011

Testimonies of Miracles Part 1


Testimonies of Miracles, that has taken place in people's lives.
Healed from strokes, seizures, blood disease and many more!
God is doing many things for his people!

And I say unto you, ask and It will be give unto you, seek and you will find know and it will be opened
to you, for everyone who ask receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. ~St.Luke 11:9-10

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Saturday, March 5, 2011

Sandra Crouch

Sandra Crouch, the American Gospel music performer, drummer and songwriter.
She won a Grammy Award in 1985 for "Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female". During the late 1960s through the early 1970s, she played tambourine on a number of Motown recording sessions. Her most memorable accomplishment was sing the lead in gospel mega-hit "God Is Trying To Tell You Something," written by Quincy Jones, her brother Andre Crouch and Bill Maxwell. The song was part of the soundtrack, "The Color Purple."

Born on July 1, 1942 in San Francisco, California with her twin brother Andrae, she is a co-pastor (along with her brother) at the Christ Memorial Church in San Fernando, California.

With All Of My Heart, 1992

We're Waiting For You, 1985

We Sing Praises, 1983

Andraé Crouch

Andrae Crouch, the seven-time Grammy Award-winning American gospelsinger, songwriter, arranger, recording artist, record producer, and pastor.
Born Andraé Edward Crouch in San Francisco, California. Andrae's parents managed a dry cleaners. His father, Benjamin Crouch, also had a street ministry, and ministered in hospitals and in prison. Andrae was eleven years old when his father was invited to preach at a small church in a farming community. The church didn't have a pastor so the bishop invited Andrae's father to become the pastor. That first Sunday, Andrae's father asked him to come up front. He said, "Andrae, if God gave you the gift of music to play and sing for him would you do it for his glory all your life?" Andrae said, "Yeah daddy." A couple of weeks later, his father asked him to come up as the congregation was singing. He said, "If you're gonna play, play." Andrae found the key, and started to play the piano. As he got a little older, he started to write songs, and lead a choir. Until he was fourteen, he had a stuttering problem—so he let his sister talk for him in public.
Crouch's first group was the Church of God in Christ Singers (COGICS) in 1960, which included Billy Preston. The COGICS were the first group to record the song "The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power."
Andraé and his sister, Sandra considered Michael Jackson as a dear friend for many years, whom they loved and greatly respected. In 1987, the Andraé Crouch Choir sang background vocals along with Siedah Garrett, Glen Ballard, and The Winans on Jackson's hit single, "Man in the Mirror" from the Bad album. The Andraé Crouch Singers were also featured on the songs, "Keep the Faith" and "Will You Be There" from Jackson's 1991 Dangerous album. Andraé and Sandra also did the choir arrangement for those songs. On Jackson's HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I project in 1995, the Andraé Crouch Choir chants climacticly in a dramatic interaction with Jackson on "Earth Song." Crouch's composition, "Soon and Very Soon" was performed at the public memorial service for Jackson at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Between 1993 and 1994 his father, mother, and older brother died in short order. Following the death of his father, Andraé took over as Senior Pastor at Christ Memorial Church of God in Christ in Pacoima, California, the church founded by his parents. He serves alongside his twin sister, Sandra. He is cousin to music critic Stanley Crouch.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

"I Give My All To You" (1980)- Rev. James Cleveland & GMWA

Reverend James Cleveland "I Give My All To You" ft. Harold Ivory Williams

Harold Ivory Williams Jr

Harold Ivory Williams, was an American jazzkeyboardist most known for working with Miles Davis, Michal Urbaniak, and the late Rev. James Cleveland.

Williams was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and was named after his father, Bishop Harold I. Williams, D.D., who was the Senior prelate of the Mount Calvary Churches Of America and International Inc. from 1972 - 2009. He is the stepson to Grammy Award-winning gospel singer Shirley Caesar -Williams. Williams started playing piano at the age of 3, becoming an accomplished and sought-after pianist.

Raised in church where his grandmother, father and mother were the Pastors at one time or another, Williams was the church organist. He was often in demand all over the city, as well as up and down the East Coast. Williams appeared on the album, The Best Of James Cleveland and the Gospel Music Workshop of America.

He was heralded by many in the late 1960s - 80's as a musical genius and electronic wizard (long before technology became the norm), and was consequently revered as being ahead of his time. He played a very active role in the development of the Jazz Fusion Era introducing elements of Gospel and classical music to the mix as evidence on the Big Fun, Miles Davis album.

Equally proficient in jazz, gospel, and classical music, Williams is a former student of thePeabody Institute.

Williams has appeared as a solo artist at Carnegie Hall and has performed with Miles Davis,James Cleveland, George Duke, MFSB TSOP, Albertina Walker, David Liebman, Michal Urbaniak, and his wife, singer Urszula Dudziak, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and others while still a teenage prodigy Williams, on the verge of international success, was forced to stop due to a debilitating illness. He continue to play in church until his death in 2010.