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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]
"Is My Living in Vain" is an American gospel song written by Elbernita "Twinkie" Clark and performed by the Clark Sisters, which first appeared on their 1980 live album, Is My Living in Vain, and released as a single the same year. The Clark Sisters recorded the song and album live at Bailey Cathedral Church of God in Christ in Detroit ...
The Sentimentalists, also known as the "Clark Sisters" (and also as the "Original" Clark Sisters; so-called to distinguish them from the current gospel music group of the same name), were an American close harmony singing group, consisting of sisters Mary Clark Branson, Peggy Clark Schwartz, Ann Clark Terry, and Jean Clark Frile.
Elbernita "Twinkie" Dionne Clark (born November 15, 1954) is an American singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and evangelist. Often called the "Mother of Contemporary Gospel Music", she is best known as the chief songwriter and a member of the gospel group the Clark Sisters, who received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024.
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 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.
The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel is a 2020 American biographical film about gospel group The Clark Sisters. Directed by Christine Swanson, and co-written by Sylvia L. Jones and Camille Tucker, the film stars Christina Bell, Kierra Sheard, Sheléa Frazier, Raven Goodwin, and Angela Birchett. It premiered on Lifetime on April 11, 2020 ...
Clark-Sheard was born Karen Valencia Clark on November 15, 1960, in Detroit, Michigan, the youngest child of Reverend Elbert Clark and Dr. Mattie Moss Clark, a gospel choral director. The youngest of six children, Clark-Sheard's siblings are Leo, Jacky , Denise , Elbernita "Twinkie" and Dorinda .