Lucinda Moore

Born Lucinda Simmons, the gospel vocalist, composer, and arranger Lucinda Moore commands a commanding vocal instrument well suited to directing expansive choirs. Her first solo outing, the 2006 album Lucinda Moore, preceded her highest chart placement when the 2017 release Walking in My Favor climbed to number three on Billboard’s Top Gospel Albums survey. The 2023 project Lord, I Hear You contained the title song that later received a BMI Trailblazer Award.

Raised in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Moore began performing in church during her earliest years and assumed lead roles in area ensembles while still a teenager. Several years afterward she joined the backing-vocal ranks of one of her key influences, Tramaine Hawkins, remaining for five years. Additional stints with assorted gospel ensembles of varying sizes followed, among them appearances alongside the Gospel Music Workshop of America, before she issued the independent EP Unlimited Praise in 2004. That recording secured her a contract with Tyscot Records, which put out her debut full-length, Lucinda Moore, in 2006; the set reached the Top 20 of Billboard’s gospel chart. During the same period she contributed to other artists’ projects, supplying arrangements for Coko’s 2006 album Grateful, lending her voice to Eric McDaniel’s 2007 release Restoration and Carman’s Instrument of Praise, and appearing on assorted choir and worship recordings.

Her next solo effort, 2010’s Blessed, Broken & Given, returned her to the gospel chart at number 13. In 2011 she received the Stellar Award for Traditional Female Artist of the Year. While continuing to perform and drafting an autobiography, Moore endured a six-year gap between studio albums that ended with the 2017 single “Walking in My Favor.” Subsequent empowering releases included the 2018 track “Still Alive (I Survived),” the 2021 single “Lord, I Hear You” that charted on Gospel Airplay, and 2022’s “Victory, No Defeat,” the first two of which later appeared on the 2023 album Lord, I Hear You. Issued on her own Nalah Music Group imprint through New Day Distributors and Sony’s The Orchard, the set was produced by Cedric Thompson; its title track earned a BMI Trailblazer Award in 2024.