“I’m Gonna Make It” – Markise Hicks and the MO Band

“I’m Gonna Make It”
Markise Hicks and the MO Band
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For their debut single, “I’m Gonna Make It,” Markise Hicks and the MO Band (Melchizedek Order) of singers and musicians offer a mid-tempo new-age gospel song with a simple lyric message or, more realistically, an affirmation.

Over and over they sing, “I might be really going through this time, but I’m gonna make it.” The recording starts a cappella – Hicks’ footfalls on the pavement audible as he walks and sings alone – and moves into an increasingly brisk, persistent, energetic and emphatic reading by a growing number of the assemblage.

Although other members of the MO Band may have a testimony about the need to press on, Hicks knows whereof he sings, having once lived homeless on the streets of Raleigh, North Carolina.