Biography
During the 1990s, Donald Lawrence and the Tri-City Singers ranked among gospel’s most prominent ensembles while also attracting notice from mainstream outlets, much like a few other Christian groups that decade. The choir consisted of Lawrence together with 34 singers recruited from the Tri-Cities area—Spartanburg, South Carolina, plus Gastonia and Charlotte, North Carolina—and entered the scene with its 1993 debut A Songwriter’s Point of View on the tiny GospoCentric label, an album that later peaked at number two on the gospel charts. By year’s end the ensemble appeared on Billboard’s list of Top Ten Gospel Groups, collected multiple Stellar Awards, and received a nomination for the NAACP’s Image Award.
Bible Stories, the choir’s sophomore release, arrived in 1995 on Crystal Rose/Chordant Records, followed in 1997 by the holiday project Hello Christmas. The group moved to EMI Gospel in 2000 and issued tri-city4.com that summer; Go Get Your Life Back appeared two years later. In 2003 the retrospective Restoring the Years combined earlier material with two newly recorded tracks. Lawrence delivered his first solo album, I Speak Life, the next year.
Spring 2006 brought word that the Tri-City Singers would disband; the final concert was documented on the simultaneously released Finalé: Act One and Finalé: Act Two. Lawrence’s second solo album, The Law of Confession, Part I, reached stores in February 2009 amid rumors of a sequel, yet his next project surfaced in 2011 as YRM (Your Righteous Mind).
Bible Stories, the choir’s sophomore release, arrived in 1995 on Crystal Rose/Chordant Records, followed in 1997 by the holiday project Hello Christmas. The group moved to EMI Gospel in 2000 and issued tri-city4.com that summer; Go Get Your Life Back appeared two years later. In 2003 the retrospective Restoring the Years combined earlier material with two newly recorded tracks. Lawrence delivered his first solo album, I Speak Life, the next year.
Spring 2006 brought word that the Tri-City Singers would disband; the final concert was documented on the simultaneously released Finalé: Act One and Finalé: Act Two. Lawrence’s second solo album, The Law of Confession, Part I, reached stores in February 2009 amid rumors of a sequel, yet his next project surfaced in 2011 as YRM (Your Righteous Mind).
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