Kelly Price on being homeless, her start in the biz, and church folk
The Gospel Music of Kelly Price
Tarvenia Jones of Elev8 has a great article on Kelly Price where she talks about being homeless and starting her career.
She has quite a lot to say about her music and how she has been treated because of it.
I love Kelly’s voice, and the gospel song “Heaven’s Best” is a favorite of my boy’s. Her duet with Ledisi of gospel song “How Great Thou Art” at Celebration of Gospel 2010 was one of the more popular performances. Be sure to read the entire article at Elev8 for more insight into the talented Kelly Price.
On Being Homeless
What was the toughest time of your childhood?
KP – I remember being homeless and sleeping in my mother’s car when I was four years old. I remember my mother would go to family members on my dad’s side and ask can my sisters and I stay with them. Even if we could sleep on the floor. I remember them telling my mother there’s no room for us in the house and telling my mother she’ll be fine. I remember my mother bundling us up in coats with tears in her eyes and taking us to sleep in the car.
On Her Start in the Music Business
How did you get discovered as a singer?
KP – I had a dear friend name Darryl Douglas. He was an incredible song writer and arranger. He would use me to demo his songs. One thing led to another. There was another session singer who sang for Luther Vandross. Her name is Cindy Mizelle. When she was getting married, she asked Darryl to do all of the music for her wedding. There were a lot of executives at her wedding.On Church Folk
How did church folks respond to you singing secular music?
KP – Are you kidding me? According to them I was probably going to hell faster for singing secular music then for being pregnant. That’s amazing to me. My observation of the scripture that says having a form of godliness but denying it’s power…it came to life for me. It’s been so clear that if you keep the form of godliness in public people really don’t care how raggedy your life is behind closed doors. As long as you don’t do anything that brings them to shame. I don’t have a problem doing what I do because I am the same Kelly in secular venues as I am in church pulpits.
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Congrats to the New Orleans Saints Superbowl Champs!
The WHO DAT Nation shut it down!! Congrats to the New Orleans Saints on their first Superbowl win. I’m sure this means a lot to the people of New Orleans.
The Superbowl festivities also included some gospel music events. According to the Christian Post, the 11th Annual Super Bowl Gospel Celebration was a great success. Gospel music artists that performed included CeCe Winans, Donnie McClurkin, and Israel and New Breed. The NFL Players All-Star Choir also performed.
BET showed a Sunday Best marathon which was obviously watched by a lot of people based on the traffic that 1800Gospel received. A lot of the searches wanted to know who the Sunday Best winner was. lol
Did you peep the commercials? There were a lot of good ones. My family’s favorites were the ones by Doritos, Denny’s, and E-Trade.
The Denny chickens were funny…
Doritos and the little bad boy…….
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