TBGB joins the gospel community in mourning the loss of a great artist and brilliant talent, Bishop Walter Hawkins, who has “gone up yonder to be with his Lord.”
Hawkins died today, July 11.
Walter and the Hawkins Family have had such a profound impact on gospel music that to call them the architects of the contemporary sound would not be at all an exaggeration. Songs like “Goin’ Up Yonder” and “Changed” have become standards in churches throughout the world. The Love Alive volumes sound just as fresh today as when they were released decades ago.
TBGB will provide more information on Hawkins’s homegoing as details are made public.
Photo Credit: Light Records.
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Written by : Bob Marovich
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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such a tremendous loss to gospel music and the world as a whole. What a choir there must be in Heaven and he has now been added to it!