Albertina Walker
Albertina Walker was born in Illinois on August 29th, 1929 and is the Gospel Singer. At the age of 81, Albertina Walker biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Albertina Walker (1929-08-29), 1929-08-29 (2010-10-08) is a film producer and activist who lived in New York City. (2010-08-08) September 8, 2010 – 1930-2010) was a British gospel singer, songwriter, actress, and humanitarian.
She was often described as the "Queen of Gospel Music" by the media.
Early years
Walker was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Ruben and Camilla Coleman Walker. Her mother was born in Houston County, Georgia, and her father was born in Bibb County, Georgia. Between 1917 and 1920, they lived in Chicago, where they lived out their lives. Albertina had four siblings who were born in Bibb County and four in Chicago. Albertina started singing in the youth choir at the West Point Baptist Church at an early age and went on to several gospel bands later, including Pete Williams Singers, The Willie Webb Singers, and the Robert Anderson Singers. Albertina was greatly influenced by Mahalia Jackson, her companion and confidante, who came with Jackson while she was out on the road when Albertina was just a teenager. "Mahalia used to terrorize me." In a 2010 Washington Post interview, she'd say, 'Girl, you have to go sing by yourself.'" she recalled Walker. Albertina Walker did just that. In 1951, she founded The Caravans, a She was once referred to as the "Queen of Gospel Music" by such luminaries as late Reverend James Cleveland and Rev. John Dowell. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., has been praised for her contributions to the field following Mahalia Jackson's death in 1972.
Musical career
In the early 1950s Walker founded her own Gospel music group The Caravans, enlisting fellow singers from The Robert Anderson Singers (Ora Lee Hopkins, Elyse Yancey and Nellie Grace Daniels). The Caravans' membership has included: James Cleveland, Bessie Griffin, Shirley Caesar, Dorothy Norwood, Inez Andrews, Loleatta Holloway, John McNeil, Cassietta George, and Delores Washington. Her discovery of these artists resulted in the nickname "Star Maker". Walker retired The Caravans in the late 1960s, performing as a solo artist.
In the mid-1970s, Walker signed with Savoy Records then Benson Records, Word Records, A&M Records, and other record companies, recording a series of solo projects, many of them with big church choirs including The Evangelical Choir, The Cathedral of Love Choir, The Metro Mass choir, and her own church choir, The West Point Choir. Albertina recorded her first solo project Put a Little Love in Your Heart in 1975. She also recorded several projects together with Reverend James Cleveland. To date, she has recorded over 60 albums, including gold selling hits "Please Be Patient With Me", "I Can Go to God in Prayer", "The Best Is Yet to Come", "Impossible Dream", and "Joy Will Come". Walker sang for United States presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and South Africa's president, Nelson Mandela.
In 1995, Walker joined Thelma Houston, CeCe Peniston, Phoebe Snow and Lois Walden to record a gospel album in common, Good News in Hard Times, as the quintet called The Sisters of Glory.
Walker recorded a reunion album with her group The Caravans entitled Paved the Way, which was released by Malaco Records on September 5, 2006. Performers included Walker, Dorothy Norwood, Inez Andrews and Delores Washington. The album was dubbed by Billboard magazine as one of the most memorable releases of 2006 and entered the Billboard charts in the top ten and remained in the top forty for sixteen weeks. Paved the Way was nominated for a Grammy, Dove, Soul Train Music Award and two Stellar Awards.