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Dorothy quit school to work "all the standard Negro jobs" available in Birmingham in the 1940s: scrubbing floors and working behind the counter in laundries and dry cleaners. She formed another singing group, "Royal Gospel Singers" in her teens. In the early 1940s she was discovered on the radio by Evelyn Starks, and was invited to begin singing wi...
During the years of her retirement, from 1959 to 1961, Dorothy Love—now Dorothy Love Coates—became active in the Civil Rights Movement, working with Martin Luther King, Jr. As she was fond of telling church audiences, "The Lord has blessed our going out and our coming in. He's blessed our "sitting in", too." While many other gospel artists were slo...
"Dorothy Love Coates" (August 30, 2006) Wikipedia - accessed September 10, 2006Heilbut, Tony (1997) The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times. Limelight Editions. ISBN 0879100346Boyer, Horace Clarence (1995) How Sweet the Sound: The Golden Age of Gospel. Elliott and Clark. ISBN 0252068777Garrison, Greg (January 19, 2007) "Birmingham's Gospel Harmonettes being inducted into hall of fame." The Birmingham NewsStill Holding On: The Music of Dorothy Love Coates and the Original Gospel Harmonettes. This program features the life and times of one of the most enduring and powerful gospel singer/songwriters of our era. From her origins in the 1950s deep south of Alabama, to her decidated participation in the civil rights movement, the documentary traces ...
Jan 30, 2022 · Birthdate: January 30, 1928Died: April 9, 2002Born Dorothy McGriff in Birmingham, Alabama, her early years were hard, (she later described them as "the same old thing"). Her minister father left the family when she was six, divorcing her mother thereafter. Dorothy began playing piano in the Baptist Church at age ten, then joined her sisters and brother in the McGriff Singers several years ...
Dorothy Love Coates. Birmingham native Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002) was a well-known gospel singer and composer who sang with the Original Gospel Harmonettes during the 1940s and 1950s. Courtesy of The Birmingham News.
Apr 9, 2002 · Dorothy Love Coates was an American gospel singer. Introduction Dorothy Love Coates; Biography Early years Musical success; Legacy; References; Further reading
Coates, Dorothy Love (1928–2002)African-American gospel singer. Born Dorothy McGriff, Jan 30, 1928, in Birmingham, Alabama; died April 9, 2002, in Birmingham; dau ...
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