Biography
Faith & Harmony formed as a family gospel sextet based in Greenville, North Carolina. Three pairs of sisters make up the lineup, with every member connected as first cousins and as granddaughters of Johnny Ray Daniels and Dorothy Vines, who established the internationally celebrated Glorifying Vines Sisters; the group also shares lineage with the male gospel quartet Dedicated Men of Zion, whose leader Anthony is the brother of KeAmber Daniels. The ensemble delivers a sound marked by breathless intensity, a hallmark of the vigorous sacred soul tradition that thrives across eastern North Carolina. Their first album, I Heard the Voice, surfaced in 2023 on Fat Possum’s Bible & Tire Recording Company and was co-produced by Bruce Watson and Will Sexton.
The six voices converged by chance in 2012 after Daniels and her sister Andrea Edwards resolved to mark their father’s birthday with an unexpected musical gift. They recruited cousins Kadesha Spaight, Christy Moody, Tinesha Weaver, and Renay Sugg, and the singers prepared the piece during spare moments at choir practice. Their performance prompted an immediate, joyful response from the full congregation; news traveled quickly, generating requests for appearances at churches, birthday celebrations, anniversaries, and countless other gatherings throughout the coastal plain, and the sextet soon became a fixture within local worship life.
Bible & Tire Recording Company was launched by Watson in 2019 and began capturing regional ensembles at its Memphis facility. The label subsequently issued recordings featuring Daniels, the Sensational Barnes Brothers, Elizabeth King and the Gospel Sounds, Elder Jack Ward, Dedicated Men of Zion, and several compilations that gathered both rare and contemporary material. In early 2023 Faith & Harmony entered the studio alongside supporting players and completed the ten-track collection I Heard the Voice, which reached listeners that November.
The six voices converged by chance in 2012 after Daniels and her sister Andrea Edwards resolved to mark their father’s birthday with an unexpected musical gift. They recruited cousins Kadesha Spaight, Christy Moody, Tinesha Weaver, and Renay Sugg, and the singers prepared the piece during spare moments at choir practice. Their performance prompted an immediate, joyful response from the full congregation; news traveled quickly, generating requests for appearances at churches, birthday celebrations, anniversaries, and countless other gatherings throughout the coastal plain, and the sextet soon became a fixture within local worship life.
Bible & Tire Recording Company was launched by Watson in 2019 and began capturing regional ensembles at its Memphis facility. The label subsequently issued recordings featuring Daniels, the Sensational Barnes Brothers, Elizabeth King and the Gospel Sounds, Elder Jack Ward, Dedicated Men of Zion, and several compilations that gathered both rare and contemporary material. In early 2023 Faith & Harmony entered the studio alongside supporting players and completed the ten-track collection I Heard the Voice, which reached listeners that November.
Albums
Singles
