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Shirley Miller Yvette A. Flunder (born July 29, 1955) is an American womanist , preacher, pastor, activist, and singer from San Francisco , CA. She is the senior pastor of the City of Refuge United Church of Christ in Oakland, California and Presiding Bishop of The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries.
Her music career started in 1986, with the female black gospel quartet, Witness. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She commenced her solo music recording career in 1997, with the studio album, More Than You'll Ever Know , that was released on April 8, 1997, from A&M Records .
Jones was born in Detroit, Michigan and began singing gospel as a child with her sisters, Brenda and Valorie, and her mother Mary Frazier Jones. Shirley and her sisters eventually began singing secular music as The Jones Girls, and signed their first recording contract with GM Records in 1970, releasing the single "My Own Special Way".
Cissy Houston, renowned soul and gospel singer and mother to Whitney Houston, died at the age of 91. Houston, a two-time Grammy winner who sang backup for Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley, passed ...
Cissy Houston, the acclaimed soul singer, mother of pop icon Whitney Houston and aunt of singer Dionne Warwick, has died.She was 91. Houston died Monday morning at her New Jersey home while under ...
Wendy Williams revealed on her talk show Monday that her beloved mom, Shirley Skinner Williams, died “many weeks ago.” Williams said the former New Jersey teacher, 85, died “peacefully ...
Muma Gee - Nigerian pop singer-songwriter, actress and fashion designer who was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church by her mother [308] Vincent Harding (1931–2014) – former African American Seventh-day Adventist pastor who became a Mennonite pastor; civil rights author, and associate of Martin Luther King Jr. who wrote the main draft ...
The DeBarge family matriarch died ‘peacefully in her sleep,’ her oldest daughter said.