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The Soul Stirrers were an American gospel music group, whose career spans over eighty years. [1] The group was a pioneer in the development of the quartet style of gospel, and a major influence on Soul , R&B , Doo-wop , and Southern soul , some of the secular music that owed much to gospel.
Paul Foster (July 12, 1920 – August 20, 1995) was born in Grand Cane, Louisiana.He sang with the legendary gospel group, the Soul Stirrers, from 1950 to 1963.Foster sang second lead alongside two other gospel greats, Rebert Harris and Sam Cooke.
Rebert H. Harris (March 23, 1916 – September 3, 2000) was an American gospel artist and lead singer of the Soul Stirrers. [1] [2] He had a pure tenor three-octave voice that he utilized for moans and slurs and leaps into falsetto.
In 1950, Cooke replaced gospel tenor R. H. Harris as lead singer of his gospel group The Soul Stirrers, who had signed with Specialty Records on behalf of the group. [22] Their first recording under Cooke's leadership was the song "Jesus Gave Me Water" in 1950.
James Phelps (born April 2, 1932, Shreveport, Louisiana – died October 26, 2010, New York City) was an American R&B and gospel singer.. Phelps moved to Chicago in his teens and sang in several gospel groups, such as the Gospel Songbirds, the Holy Wonders (beside Lou Rawls) and the Soul Stirrers (with Sam Cooke). [1]
Alexander also brought several other gospel groups to the label, but devoted much of his attention to the Soul Stirrers, increasingly seeing Cooke as someone who could become a commercially successful teen idol by performing secular rather than spiritual music. [5] The Soul Stirrers, with Cooke, and the Pilgrim Travelers, with Alexander, toured ...
In 1951, he replaced Cooke in the Highway QC's after Cooke departed to join The Soul Stirrers in Los Angeles. Rawls was hired by the Chosen Gospel Singers and moved to Los Angeles, where he joined the Pilgrim Travelers. In 1955, Rawls enlisted in the United States Army as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division. He served in B Co 2/505th ...
Rev. Julius "June" Cheeks (August 7, 1929 – January 27, 1981) was an American gospel singer, ... To make ends meet Cheeks briefly joined the Soul Stirrers ...