Andrae Crouch
Andrae Crouch
Andraé Edward Crouchwas an American gospel singer, songwriter, arranger, record producer and pastor. Referred to as "the father of modern gospel music" by contemporary Christian and gospel music professionals, Crouch was known for his compositions "The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power", "My Tribute" and "Soon and Very Soon". In secular music, he was known for his collaborative work during the 1980s and 1990s with Stevie Wonder, Elton John and Quincy Jones as well as conducting choirs that sang on...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGospel Singer
Date of Birth1 July 1942
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Faith came by just believing God's word and taking Him up on His word.
I think that if something's really good, and it touches that part of their heart that has been untouched, or maybe it has been touched but they never wanted to admit it, I think that when they get back to that, I think that we are still in a place that people enjoy it the way it's supposed to be enjoyed.
As long as God gives me the strength to still minister and create, I'll do it.
Every single morning, I have a person sitting right there next to me in prayer with a tape recorder - and a song comes up every day.
God can take anything we have, as long as we give Him the glory for it. He can develop it and make it acceptable in music for the people.
I look at all my projects as a stair step to the next. My goal is to always get better and better.
I love doing music, and I plan to do it until I die or as long as I can walk to the piano.
I'm a pastor. I say, 'Let the church say amen,' and that settles it. Everything has been said, you know; it's like we have to agree with God.
Just the way my voice sounds now, it's always had this little hoarse thing to it. And I'd have to do vocal exercises to make my voice clear.
My mother's father was Jewish, so she was very conservative. She liked little, pretty music-orchestral-type things.
That's all I want in life is to be remembered as a guy that really loved God.
There have been times when we've been playing, and people who were sick were totally healed.
I started singing by default, I think. Because there was a guy in the group that thought the group wasn't going to ever be anything. And I was getting ready to record, and I'd never recorded my voice. It was always other people that I featured because I thought they did a much better job.
I think that some people still think that the formula other than gospel still is not strong enough to get that crossover appeal to people enough that they would play it all the time, or nonchurch people would accept it, but I disagree.