Calvary Holy Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and later in Raleigh-Durham. In 1983, Caesar married Bishop Harold Ivory Williams and became co-pastor of Mt. Not surprisingly, Caesar’s singing style also led her to work as an evangelist.
Caesar credits Albertina Walker as her mentor and “Queen of Gospel Music”. She made a name for herself in the gospel music circuit, making guest appearances on the Bobby Jones gospel show and other popular television shows. Thereafter she began pursuing a solo career with two albums, entitled My Testimony and I’ll Go, backed up by the Institutional Radio Choir. She recorded and performed with the Caravans from 1958 until 1966. She sang with Albertina Walker, Cassietta George, Dorothy Norwood, Inez Andrews, Delores Washington and James Cleveland while in the Caravans.
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Her professional adult ‘career’ began in 1957 when she was 19, when she approached Albertina Walker (The queen of Gospel music) about joining The Caravans, one of the most popular gospel groups at that time. This “calling” has developed into 150 concerts per year, volunteer work for the poor, numerous accolades and over 30 record albums.Ĭaesar first began singing and performing for family and friends. A multi-award-winning artist, Winning 11 out of 28 Grammy Nominations and 14 Dove Awards and a list of other prestigious accolades, she is popularly known as the “First Lady of Gospel Music”.Īfter hearing the voice of God during a college exam, Shirley Caesar believed it was her duty to spread the Gospel. She is an American Gospel music singer, songwriter and recording artist whose career has spanned over six decades. He continued to play in church until his death in 2010.Shirley Ann Caesar-Williams, known professionally as Shirley Caesar was born on Oct 13th, 1938 in Durham, North Carolin. On the verge of international success, Williams was forced to stop due to a debilitating illness.
Gamble decided to use the band to back another of his artists, vocalist Jean Carne, while grooming Dialect to spin off on its own. The group, known as Dialect, recorded a demo session for Kenny Gamble’s Philadelphia International Records and was to become the label’s answer to the booming market in jazz/fusion music in the late 1970s. He founded a group with several prominent jazz musicians including jazz bassist Tony Bunn. Jones” and other Gamble and Huff greatest hits, Albertina Walker, David Liebman, Michal Urbaniak, and his wife, singer Urszula Dudziak, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and others while still a teenage prodigy. Williams appeared as a solo artist at Carnegie Hall and performed with Miles Davis, James Cleveland, George Duke, MFSB “Cowboys to Girls”, “Me and Mrs. He was one of the first to fuse gospel music with jazz in the church arena.Įqually proficient in jazz, gospel, and classical music, Williams was a former student of the Peabody Institute. 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. He was heralded by many in the late 1960s to 1980s as a musical genius and electronic wizard (long before technology became the norm), and was consequently revered as being ahead of his time. Williams appeared on the album The Best Of James Cleveland and the Gospel Music Workshop of America. He was often in demand all over the city, as well as up and down the East Coast. Raised in church where his grandmother, father and mother were the pastors at one time or another, Williams was the church organist. Williams started playing piano at the age of three, becoming an accomplished and sought-after pianist. Hope Mason, who is the creator of the original Gospel Aerobics, and was the stepson to gospel singer Shirley Caesar -Williams, god-son to Mahalia Jackson and his grandmother, Rev Ethel Williams,(the first ordained African-American woman in Baltimore, MD), worked as an assistant to Marcus Garvey during the historic movement. Williams was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and was named after his father, Harold Ivory Williams, who was the Senior prelate and one of the Patriarchs of the Mount Calvary Churches Of America and International Inc. (Aug– June 9, 2010) was an American jazz keyboardist most known for working with Miles Davis, Michal Urbaniak, MFSB, and the Rev.
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