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MP3 Gene Viale - A Light To This World

This CD contains Black Gospel music from easy-listening, Latin rhythms, to the flat footed Gospel of the 50''s & 60''s.

13 MP3 Songs
GOSPEL: Traditional Gospel, GOSPEL: Contemporary Gospel



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Gene Viale born 1946. Best know as an anointed singer of the Gospel. Started singing at the age of five. In the San Francisco Bay area. Attended his Grandparent''s Pentecostal Church, in San Franscisco''s Mission district. He is of latin decent ( Puerto Rican-European )

By the age of twelve he organized his first gospel https://www.tradebit.com was also singing(as a lead singer)with one of the largest and best know African American Choirs in the San Francisco Bayarea. The Voices Of Victory. Gene began to travel around that time, singing the Gospel in small churches in California. He was know from the begining for his smooth powerful singing style.

A style acquired by listening to all the great Gospel singers of the 40''s through 60''s on their 78''s,45''s and 331/3''s. At the age of 17,while attending a gathering of musicans and singers at a home in Los Angeles. The Revs. Andre''and Sondra Crouch (personel friends of his) asked him to sing. Andre'' played the piano. And the rest is history. Gene was asked to be part of the Famous James Cleveland Singers. And within the week, he, without rehearsel began what was to become an extended tour throughout the https://www.tradebit.comearing with all the greats of the day. Mahalia Jackson, Doris Akers, The Famous Caravans, The Gospel Harmonettes, The Staple Singers, The Ward Singers, The Davis Sisters, The Roberta Martin Singers. Many of the great choirs also. Like The Angelic Choir, The Voices Of Tabernacle and many https://www.tradebit.com has appeared both as a Cleveland singer and a solo artist at the world famous Apollo Theater and many of the other prestigious venus across this https://www.tradebit.com has also been priviliged to appear in a one time tour of five countries in https://www.tradebit.come has recieved awards from both the Urban League and The NAACP.2005 brought him a Gospel Pioneer https://www.tradebit.comen by the world famous Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir and recogniction by The Gospel Music Workshop Of https://www.tradebit.comnded by the late Rev. James Cleveland,at their Milwaukee Workshop.

Forty years have passed, since his first recording experience. Gene, is no longer a boy. He has been featured over the years on six albums. The first as a Cleveland Singer "Heaven That Will Be Good Enough For Me" on the Savoy Label."What Color Is God" Checker Records, "As Unto The Lord"and"If You Trust In The Lord"Camella https://www.tradebit.comvious to this new project,a Live CD "The Only Hope We Have" with the late Miss Cassietta George of the Legendary Caravans.

This project "A Light To This World" is by far his most heart felt sharing. The sounds range from an easy listening latin rythm to the flat footed sounds reminiscent, of the Gospel songs of the 50''s and 60''s. This CD is a must for the Gospel enthusiast, who desires not only a quality sound. But a project which shares a message birthed out of the anointing of the Holy https://www.tradebit.coms CD imbodies a sound which will fill the yearning of those who remember and love the simple melodic sounds of ensemble gospel singing of the mid 60''s,as well as those gospel fans looking for a CD which can be used as a ministry tool, to help usher them into intimate times of worship.

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