Let's Talk: GMG Tribute Bishop Walter Hawkins
SEP 12, 2023
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•Bishop Walter Lee Hawkins One of gospel music's legendary artists, and beloved figures in contemporary Gospel Music. In over Thirty years of his career, he created one of the most prolific and outstanding catalogs of hit gospel recordings and published songs which include such great hits as: Marvelous, Going Up Yonder, Changed, Be Grateful, Thank You, He's That Kind Of Friend, Until I Found The Lord, Jesus Christ Is the Way, I'm Not The Same, Holy One,
Follow Me and a multitude of others.

•Walter Hawkins began singing with his family which expanded to his older brother Edwin Hawkins’ choir.  In the early 1970’s Walter left the Edwin Hawkins Singers to establish the Love Center Church in Oakland, California.

• Rev. Walter Hawkins and the Love Center Choir had considerable success with the “Love Alive” series of recordings which sold over a million copies.

•In 1990 the “Love Alive IV” recording hit #1 on the Billboard Gospel Album charts where it  remained for 33 weeks.

•Bishop Walter Hawkins wrote, produced or collaborated on 116 hit songs which were listed on the Billboard Gospel Music charts.

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