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Gospel soul-sisters in more than just name, Lisa, Andrea and Joy Kimmey became popular as the first Christian Contemporary group of the ’90s to take back soul/R&B from the secular masses
Christine and Scott Dente met while studying at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where they began to perform in small clubs with Christine on vocals and Scott playing guitar
A longtime member of the Isley Brothers, singer/songwriter O’Kelly Isley performed with his influential family group for close to four decades, a period spanning not only two generations of siblings but also massive cultural shifts that heralded their music’s transformation from gritty R&B to Motown soul to blistering funk
O’Landa Draper attended Memphis State University, where he formed a mass choir (the Associates) that later performed with Shirley Caesar (on “Hold My Mule”), The Winans, Nicholas, Timothy Wright, Myrna Summers, and others
Kidney failure may have prematurely ended the life of its founder and creative director, O’Landa Draper, at the age of 34, in July 1998, but the Memphis, TN-based gospel group O’Landa Draper & the Associates continues his musical crusade
A family affair consisting of siblings Wanda (December 29, 1952) and Larry Butler (January 31, 1951), and Jim Grant (August 26, 1955); Grant had a different father but the same mother