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As a group, the Clark Sisters have won two Grammy Awards [1] and are the highest-selling female gospel group in history. [2] In 2020, the Clark Sisters were honored with the James Cleveland Lifetime Achievement Award at the 35th Annual Stellar Awards. [3] In 2022, the group was inducted into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame. [4]
You Brought the Sunshine is the eighth album released by The Clark Sisters in 1981. In 1983, the album peaked at number three on the US Billboard Top Gospel Albums chart, [2] before appearing on the 1983 and 1984 year-end charts.
The album won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Gospel Album at the 50th Grammy Awards, while the song "Blessed & Highly Favored" won both Best Gospel Song and Best Gospel Performance (in a tie with "Never Gonna Break My Faith" from Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige). [1] The Clark Sisters also performed during the awards ceremony. [2]
The song has since been covered and sampled by a number of singers. The singer Bilal names the song's LP among his 25 favorite albums, calling it one of the Clark Sisters' best and "an incredible gospel album". [2] On August 31, 2018, the Clark Sisters performed the song live at Aretha Franklin's funeral in Detroit. [3]
Clark is best known as a member of the gospel singing group the Clark Sisters. Often called the "Mother of Contemporary Gospel Music"; Clark possesses a 5 octave vocal range spanning from Bass and Baritone (B#1) notes to High Soprano and whistle register notes (G6). NPR named her one of the 50 Great Voices.
Mattie Moss Clark (born Mattie Juliet Moss; March 26, 1925 – September 22, 1994) was an American gospel choir director and the mother of The Clark Sisters, a gospel vocal group. She was the longest-serving International Minister of Music for the Church of God in Christ (COGIC).
The Clark Sisters were once a five member group, but Denise Clark-Bradford left the group in the 1980s and their relationship became estranged. It remains distant today.
Jacqueline Lenita Clark-Chisholm (née Clark; December 29, 1948), [2] known professionally as Jacky Clark-Chisholm, is an American Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, songwriter, and licensed practical nurse who is best known as the eldest member of the American gospel singing group The Clark Sisters.