Biography
Washington state native Genobia Jeter possessed gospel foundations that ran deeper than those of most soul vocalists, owing to her position as niece of the legendary Rev. Julius Cheeks, with whom she launched her singing career inside his backing choir. Savoy signed her in 1980, after which she delivered three gospel albums across the following two years: Heaven, Things Got to Get Better, and Genobia. Among the songs on those releases stood the Glenn Jones duet “Not Just for Today”; Jones would serve as her recurring duet partner throughout the next decade and would eventually become her husband. Their earliest secular collaboration arrived with 1983’s “Keep On Doin’,” cut for a Jones album on RCA; Jeter herself then signed with RCA as a secular urban contemporary artist and made her debut in 1986 with Genobia. The album fused quiet storm ballads with more up-tempo, danceable material and generated the singles “All of My Love,” written and produced by the team of Meli'sa Morgan and Lesette Wilson, and “Together,” another duet with Jones. Jeter and Jones later rejoined the gospel circuit, appearing together on the Canton Spirituals’ 2002 release Walking by Faith.
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