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Donnie McClurkin
One of the all-time top-selling gospel music artists, selling more than 10 million albums worldwide, Donald McClurkin, Jr., was born in Amityville in 1959. By the time he was a teenager, he had formed the McClurkin Singers, and later he formed another group, the New York Restoration Choir. McClurkin served as an assistant to Pastor Marvin Winans at Detroit’s Perfecting Church for over a decade before he was ordained and sent out by Winans in 2001 to establish Perfecting Faith Church in Freeport, where he is now senior pastor. His self-titled debut album, the first of four studio albums, was released in 1996, and he has also released three lives albums, the first two reaching No. 1 on the gospel chart. In 2017, McClurkin reached the top of Billboard’s Gospel Airplay chart with “I Need You”—12 years after his “I Call You Faithful” topped the same chart in 2005. McClurkin has won three Grammys, 11 Stellar Awards, four BET Awards, two Soul Train awards, four NAACP Image Awards, and three Dove Awards, and he was a judge on BET’s Sunday Best
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Donnie McClurkin
American gospel singer (born 1959)
Musical artist
Donald Andrew McClurkin Jr. (born November 9, 1959) is an American gospel singer and minister. He has won three Grammy Awards, ten Stellar Awards, two BET Awards, two Soul Train Awards, one Dove Award and one NAACP Image Awards. He is one of the top selling gospel artists, selling over 13 million albums.[1]Variety dubbed McClurkin as a "Reigning King of Urban Gospel".[2]
Early life
McClurkin was born in Copiague, New York.[3] When he was eight years old, his two-year-old brother was hit and killed by a speeding driver, which generated family turmoil. Shortly thereafter, McClurkin was a victim of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of his great uncle and, years later, by his great uncle's son. Two of his sisters dealt with substance abuse, and that's when the young McClurkin found solace in going to church and also through an aunt who sang background vocals with gospel musician Andraé Crouch.
By the time he was a teenager, he had formed the McClurkin Singers and lat
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Born: November 9, 1959
Styles: Black Gospel, Contemporary Gospel, Urban
Biography:
Donnie McClurkin is a gospel vocalist with the soul of Andraé Crouch and the contemporary flair of Kirk Franklin. Born into a home filled with domestic violence and drug abuse, McClurkin was saved by an aunt who sang background vocals with Crouch himself. After staying close to Crouch throughout his boyhood, he began to play piano and sing with his church youth choir. He formed the McClurkin Singers by the time he was a teenager, and later formed another group, the New York Restoration Choir.
Hired as an associate minister at Marvin Winans' Perfecting Church in 1989, with his vocals during a seminar, McClurkin endured a bout with leukemia that year. A friendship with a Warner Alliance executive resulted in his signing to the label for his 1996 self-titled LP, with producers Mark Kibble (of Take 6), Cedric and Victor Maxwell plus Andraé Crouch. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide
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