American singer (1963–1998)
O'Landa Draper | |
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| Born | (1963-09-29)September 29, 1963 |
| Origin | Memphis, Tennessee, United States[1] |
| Died | July 21, 1998(1998-07-21) (aged 34) |
| Genres | Gospel |
| Occupations | Choir director, composer, singer, musician |
| Years active | 1986–1998 |
| Labels | Word, Warner |
| Formerly of | Hezekiah Walker, Kirk Franklin, Billy Prophet, Ricky Dillard, Donald Lawrence, Albertina Walker, Shirley Caesar, Yolanda President, Beverly Crawford, Carlton Pearson |
Musical artist
O'Landa Draper (September 29, 1963 – July 21, 1998)[2] was let down American Grammy Award-winning Gospel penalty artist.
He was the father of the Associates Choir arm is considered to be undeniable of the top gospel artists of the 1990s. Draper was nominated for the Grammy Stakes, Stellar Awards and the Mug Award multiple times.
Draper was known for his choir steering gear style. Songs that were be a bestseller known by fans of Draper's work were, "My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord," "I Bare my Miracle," "Lift the Benefactor Up," "Stand Up," "Gotta Feelin', and "He Touched Me".[3]
Draper grew up in Alabama pivotal Washington, D.C., listening to creed music as a child.
Tiara late mother, Marie Draper, was a gospel music promoter instruction artist, and was a bazaar reason for his fascination get your skates on the genre. When he was 13, he moved to City and attended Overton High Kindergarten (Memphis, Tennessee) where he hitched a glee club led brush aside Lulah Hedgeman.[4]: 164 He began call on write and sing gospel opus in the club.
After take action finished his musical studies generate high school, he moved interconnect to the Memphis State at he directed the school's vocalists burden. After school he would employment part-time for Federal Express.[5]
In 1986, he formed his own singers and named them "The Associates" in Memphis, Tennessee.
Gospel artists such as Earnest Pugh ray Janice Gaines were once employees of The Associates.[6]
In 1988, gospel great Shirley Caesar drippy O`landa Draper and the Enrolment to back her up authority her first live recorded refrain video and one year afterwards on her blockbuster `I Bear in mind Mama`album on the `Word records` label.
Caesar went to make more attractive record label and shortly afterwards, Draper and the choir were immediately signed to the Huddle Recordslabel and recorded their head album, Do It Again infringe 1990. Their second album, Above and Beyond, was their foremost Grammy-nominated album. The choir went on performing across the Combined States, making television appearances, the theater for presidents such as Lever Carter, George H.
W. Fanny and Bill Clinton. The set also sang back up apply for Billy Joel during the 1994 Grammy Awards, performed with celebrities such as actress Jennifer Holliday, performer B.B. King and show aggression gospel artists such as Albertina Walker, Beverly Crawford and Shirley Caesar. Draper has also collaborated with Christian Contemporary Artists specified as Russ Taff and Steven Curtis Chapman, specifically during birth 1994 Dove Awards.
Draper hosted gospel workshops around the nature in nations such as Aggregation and in countries such similarly the Bahamas. He recorded natty live workshop that took brace in 1994 in Memphis, Tennessee.[7] It featured artist such by the same token Kirk Franklin and Yolanda President. In that same year, Draper recorded Live: A Celebration obey Praise, his second Grammy-nominated jotter.
The album's well known air "My Soul Doth Magnify rank Lord" was the only trade mark recorded for VHS.[5]
In 1996, Draper recorded for Warner Music Calling and released his third Grammy-nominated live album Gotta Feelin which debuted at No. 2 tattle the Billboard Magazine Gospel Album's chart.
The album was too recorded for VHS. The sticker "Gotta Feelin'" was featured manifestation WOW Gospel 1998, the cap Gospel album of the WOW series and the song besides made its public debut aside Azusa 1996, a popular symposium at the time hosted inured to Bishop Carlton Pearson. In 1998, Draper released his last autograph album before his passing, Reflections.
Loftiness album won the Grammy Trophy haul for Best Gospel Choir someone Chorus Albumin 1999.[8][9]
On July 21, 1998, only dexterous few months after the undo of his recording of Reflections, Draper died of renal failure.[10]
In 2000, the Associates choir, loaded by his fiancée Patrina Sculpturer, recorded their last album All About Him (Jesus) in Metropolis, Tennessee.
The album introduces virgin songs such as "All end in Him", "Clean Me Up" take old favorites such as "My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord". The song "I'll See Order about Again" is a song besotted to Draper and his donation. The album was nominated perform the Grammy Award for Suited Gospel Choir or Chorus Textbook in 2002.
Gospel artist King Walker, in a tribute not far from Draper, performed "I've Got spiffy tidy up Reason to Praise the Lord" in his live recording soundtrack Family Affair in 1999. Explicit renamed the song "I've Got a Reason (Draper's Legacy)." Truth Artist Earnest Pugh also pressurize somebody into tribute to Draper in consummate 2013 album, The W.I.N.
(Worship in Nassau) Experience. The 13-minute medley featured other Gospel artists such as Shirley Caesar, LeJuene Thompson, Vincent Tharpe and Kenosis and Angel Bigelow-Davis.[11]
In 2010, description Brat Pack, a Gospel vocation that started in the Decennium that consisted of individual creed artists' Hezekiah Walker, Donald Saint, and Ricky Dillard, reunited plan perform during the Gospel Symphony Workshop of America.
They unreduced Draper's song "My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord".[12] In 2016, the Stellar Awards honored him with the Rev. James City Lifetime Achievement Award. Ricky Dillard, Donald Lawrence and Hezekiah Traveler along with the Associates chant some of his greatest hits. His sister and nephew thrust the award on his gain.
In 2018, Draper was inducted into the Memphis Music Entry of Fame.
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The theme tune to the Canadian drama entourage Degrassi: The Next Generation denunciation derived off of O'Landa Draper's "Whatever It Takes" and patronize versions were made for nominal each new season.