1997: Jesus Loves Me – The Western Michigan Mass Choir.1996: Be Encouraged – Los Angeles Chapter of the G.M.W.A.1996: "I'll See You In The Rapture" Mississippi Mass Choir.1996: Music in Me – Larry Coleman (producer).1995: On & On – Jennifer Holliday (producer, background vocals, piano).1994: Choirs En Masse – Various artists (performer, producer).1993: Hold on Old Soldier – The Mississippi Mass Choir (producer, writer, singer).1993: It Remains to Be Seen – The Mississippi Mass Choir (producer).1992: A Salute to The Caravans – Various artists (performer on "Where Is Your Faith in God").1990: Live – Tramaine Hawkins (producer, choir director, keyboards).1987: Baby Sis – Lynette Hawkins Stephens (producer, writer, vocals).1987: Touch the World – Earth, Wind & Fire.1987: The Hunger – Michael Bolton (background vocals).1986: Frantic Romantic – Jermaine Stewart (background vocals).1986: Just Daryl – Daryl Coley (background vocals, keyboards).1986: Hand in Hand – The Williams Brothers (producer, keyboards).1986: I Must Go On – Shirley Miller (producer, writer, vocals).1986: The Search Is Over – Tramaine Hawkins.1982: This Is Love – Patrick Henderson (keyboards).1982: Imagine Heaven – The Edwin Hawkins Singers.1980: The Lord's Prayer – Various artists duet with Tramaine Hawkins on "Thy Kingdom Come" (Light).2005: The Very Best of Walter Hawkins and the Hawkins Family (Artemis Gospel).2002: Mega 3 Collection: Love Alive (Light).1995: The Hawkins Family Collection (Platinum).2005: A Song in My Heart (solo) (Coda/Red-Sony).2000: Take Courage – Hawkins Family (Bellmark).5: 25th Anniversary Reunion – Love Center Choir (Interscope) 1996: New Dawning – Hawkins Family (Bellmark).1990: Love Alive 4 – Love Center Choir (Malaco).1988: Special Gift Hawkins Family (Birthright).1984: Love Alive 3 – Love Center Choir (Light).1978: Love Alive 2 – Love Center Choir (Light).1977: Jesus Christ Is the Way – The Hawkins Family (Light).1975: Love Alive – Love Center Choir (Light).On July 11, 2010, Walter Hawkins died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 61 in his house in Ripon, California. One of those who regularly attended the Love Center church was Sylvester, who had been introduced to it in the early 1980s by Jeanie Tracy. Walter Hawkins and his groups were frequent musical collaborators, and recorded with Van Morrison, Diahann Carroll, Sylvester, and Jeffrey Osborne, among many others. In all, Walter Hawkins produced and/or collaborated on 116 hit songs which were listed on the Billboard Gospel Music charts. 1 on the Billboard Gospel Album charts, where it stayed for 33 weeks. He and his Love Center Choir had considerable success with their Love Alive series of recordings, which sold well over a million copies from the 1970s through the 1990s. Walter Hawkins left the Edwin Hawkins Singers in the early 1970s to establish the Love Center Church in Oakland, California. This led to him accompanying his brother Edwin to establish the Edwin Hawkins Singers. When a song from that album, "Oh Happy Day", became a crossover hit, Buddah Records purchased the master and released it as "the Edwin Hawkins Singers". The choir recorded an album in 1968 as a local fundraiser. Bishop Hawkins also had a granddaughter, Jahve Neru Deana Hawkins, and a grandson, Jamie Daniel Hawkins.īishop Hawkins started his career in one of his brother's chorales, the Northern California State Youth Choir of the Church of God in Christ. They had two children, a son Walter Lee "Jamie" Hawkins, Jr., who is married to Myiia "Sunny" Davis-Hawkins, and a daughter Trystan Lynette Hawkins. Bishop Hawkins was married to Tramaine Hawkins from 1971 until their divorce in 1994. 1952), Daniel Lee Hawkins (Marcia) and Lynette Gail Hawkins-Stephens (Reginald). 2020), Feddie Joyce Hawkins, Jervis Ersell Hawkins (d. Hawkins was the brother of Edwin Hawkins (d. The 7th of 8 children born to the late Dan Lee and Mamie Vivian Hawkins, Walter Lee Hawkins was born on May 18, 1949, in Oakland, California. He was consecrated to the bishopric in 2000. An influential figure in urban contemporary gospel music, his career spanned more than four decades. Walter Lee Hawkins (– July 11, 2010) was an American gospel singer, songwriter, composer, and pastor.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |