Biography
Evelyn Turrentine-Agee, who entered the world as Ruth Evelyn Tyler within a deacon’s household in St. Louis, Missouri, has sustained a career as a performer and a gospel singer whose recordings have appeared on industry charts. Public performances began at age three when she joined her father onstage; she later sang with the family’s female gospel ensemble the Tylerettes and subsequently with the Gospel Echoettes and the War on Sin Choir. While completing studies at the University of Detroit she married Chris Turrentine, and, drawing from her own upbringing in a sizable family, she raised a household of more than ten children in Detroit, Michigan, the city she made her home. Her first major-label solo album, In God’s Own Time, appeared on A&M Records in 1992, when she was in her forties, and registered on Billboard’s Top Gospel Albums chart. God Did It! followed in 2000, and two years later she issued both the concert video Live in Detroit and the live album Testimony: God Did It Live! She reentered the gospel charts with It’s Already Done in 2003 and again with Go Through in 2005. After her debut she moved among several imprints, releasing the double-length Double Exposure on WOS Recordings and, in 2010, There’s Gonna Be a Meeting on Shanachie Records. Born to Worship, another charting gospel title, came out on Ophir Gospel in 2013, with One More Day appearing on the same label in 2015.
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