“Did It For Me”https://www.facebook.com/pages/Chontella-Renee-Young-Ivy/159821870618
Granddaughter of blues legend Mighty Joe Young, Chontella Renee (Chontella Young Ivy) pours the essence of her testimony into “Did It For Me,” a breezy contemporary gospel song that sums up how Jesus’ sacrifice of his own life saved hers.
She tells TBGB she wrote the song “while I was in a Cook County jail cell back in Chicago 2002 after being arrested on the west-side streets (Grenshaw & Springfield) as a neighborhood junkie, prostitute and drug-dealer.”
After turning her life over to God and upon her release from prison, Chontella went to school and is now a mental health and addictions counselor in Las Vegas. In 2008, seven years after her arrest, she was ordained a minister. Happily married, “I went through life trying to find out how to be truly loved,” she says. “Now I know true love starts within myself first.”
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Bob Marovich is a gospel music historian, author, and radio host. Founder of Journal of Gospel Music blog (formally The Black Gospel Blog) and producer of the Gospel Memories Radio Show.
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