By Kayla Armstrong —. Gospel music legend Donnie McClurkin struggled with homosexuality, following a childhood marred by molestation and rejection. Born in Amityville, South Carolina, Donnie was one of 10 kids growing up in poverty. Mom blamed Donnie. The tyke chased Donnie into the street in front of their house. Donnie watched in horror as a car barreled into his brother, who bounced off the bumper and disappeared beneath the vehicle. From that moment in his life, Donnie began to suffer depression and his family fell apart.


Eight-time Grammy-winning contemporary gospel singer Andrae Crouch gives a speech before receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, June 4, It includes rare, full-length performance footage dating back to the s, uplifting religious scenes, and interviews with the likes of late Dixie Hummingbirds lead singer Ira Tucker, Sr. I literally thought the walls were gonna come down, it was so intense! They just completely ripped the place apart. Many gospel stars ended up on the cutting room floor.
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Anthony Charles Williams II has never had a comfortable relationship with the industry that made him famous. He had a certain hip-hop swagger, and he cultivated a coy, teasing sensibility; he had the status of a sex symbol, while portraying himself as a righteous alternative to the decadent mainstream. He is only thirty-four years old, a young veteran. He has released dozens of CDs, which contain some of the strangest and most seductive Christian pop music since the glory days of James Cleveland; his most evident musical forebears are adventurous pop stars such as Stevie Wonder, Janet Jackson, and Erykah Badu. He knows his way around an old-fashioned spiritual, but from the start he delighted in embracing the cultural signifiers of the nonchurch world: Indian incense, hip-hop slang, Rastafarian head wraps, slim-fitting European suits, trunk-rattling bass.