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Walter Hawkins
Along with his brother Edwin and fellow Californian Andrae Crouch, Walter Hawkins was one of the chief architects of contemporary gospel music.
Walter Lee Hawkins was born on May 18, 1949, in Oakland, California, to Mamie and Dan Lee Hawkins. He sang in the youth choir that his older brother, Edwin Hawkins, directed at the Ephesian Church of God in Christ in Berkeley.
Walter also sang in the Northern California State Youth Choir of the Church of God in Christ. This denominationally based community choir, which Edwin co-founded in 1967, aspired to attend the COGIC Annual Youth Congress in 1968. To raise the funds needed to get there, the choir recorded and sold a privately pressed album, Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord. The opening song was a softly rocking remake of the hymnbook staple Oh Happy Day, with lead vocals by Dorothy Morrison. Oh Happy Day garnered widespread interest when a San Francisco disc jockey began playing it on the radio. Soon other stations added the song to their playlists and Oh Happy Day became a national hit. The album was r
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From Slavery To a Bishopric,
or, The Life of Bishop Walter Hawkins
of the British Methodist Episcopal Church Canada:
Electronic Edition.
S. J. Celestine Edwards
Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities
supported the electronic publication of this title.
Text scanned (OCR) by Bethany Ronnberg and Susan Huffman
Images scanned by Bethany Ronnberg
Text encoded by Bethany Ronnberg and Natalia Smith
First edition, 1999
ca. 400K
Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
1999.
Call number BX 8251 .E38 1891 (Christian Theological Seminary Library, Indianapolis, Indiana)
The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CH digitization project, Documenting the American South.
The transcribed copy is from the Christian Theological Seminary Library in Indianapolis, Indiana
Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to
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Walter Hawkins went home to be with the Lord Sunday July 11, 2010, He will be missed. Walter Hawkins was an American gospel music singer born May 18, 1949 in Oakland, California. One of gospel music's most legendary figures, Bishop Walter Hawkins was one of the most beloved pastors and figures in contemporary Gospel Music today. In the Forty plus years of his career, he had created one of the most prolific and outstanding catalogs of hit gospel recordings and published songs.
Walter was the brother of gospel singer Edwin Hawkins and Lynette Hawkins-Stephens. While married to Tramaine Hawkins, the couple had two children: a son, Walter "Jamie" Hawkins, Jr. (Myiia "Sunny" Hawkins) and a daughter, Trystan Hawkins with one granddaughter, Jahve Hawkins and one grandson, Jamie Daniel Hawkins.
Hawkins started his career with his brothers' hit song "Oh Happy Day" with The Edwin Hawkins Singers which became one of the first gospel songs to crossover onto mainstream charts.
Walter left the group in the early '70s to establish the Love Center C
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