Beverly Crawford Lends her Voice to Obama Campaign

Gospel music has been recruited to further political campaigns since the early 1930s, when Chicago candidates tapped Mahalia Jackson to sing for their meetings. Back then, Jackson’s performances — reminiscent of old-time Southern religion in sound and physical movement — were a way for urban politicians to speak the language of, and thereby curry favor with, new Southern migrants who moved to the North in part to gain the opportunity to vote.

Recognizing the continued power of gospel music to stir the souls of the populace, Senator Barack Obama has asked Beverly Crawford — a singer not unlike the famed Halie — to help him out with his campaign to be the Democratic candidate for President of the United States. The press release from Crawford’s record company, JDI Records, is below.

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Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama has enlisted award-winning gospel singer Beverly Crawford to join him on the campaign trail, as his special musical guest, as he stomps through South Carolina and other crucial presidential primary areas in the upcoming months.

Riding high on the success of her chart-topping new single “He’s Done Enough” (currently the most heavily added song in the country according to R&R / Billboard radio airplay charts), Beverly Crawford is a multiple Grammy & Stellar Award nominee and is regarded as one of the world’s premier vocalists. Ebony Magazine says “… Beverly Crawford is one of the truly great voices of our times!”

Featured on her new JDI Records/Sony BMG Red release entitled Live from Los Angeles, Crawford’s new CD debuted last week at #8 on Billboard and hearkens back to her early performances with Dr. Bobby Jones & New Life – straight up unadulterated gospel!

“The call from Senator Obama’s campaign came as a complete surprise to me – I didn’t know he was a lover of gospel music” says Crawford. “I am both humbled and privileged to be a part of history in the making and I am happy to lend my full support to Senator Barack’s historic run to the White House!”

“He’s Done Enough has touched the hearts of so many people & I am completely overwhelmed by the response,” says Crawford. “When Professor Roberson from JDI first approached me about recording ‘He’s Done Enough’, I wasn’t sure but he said, ‘Beverly trust me, with everything that is going on in the world, people are longing to hear some real music that touches the heart and ministers to the soul’. Boy was he right! So I praise God for providing me this wonderful opportunity and platform, through Senator Obama, to tell the nation that “if the Lord never does anything else, He’s already done enough! For us to praise Him, for us to worship Him, for us to give Him the glory!”

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