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During this time Tribute Records' parent company Diadem Music Group merged with Benson Music Group, which was eventually bought by New York-based Zomba/Verity Records. The footage from this recording was released as a collection of two videos on VHS initially, and later as a single set on DVD and CD. Live in Washington, released the following year, featured versions of material from her first three albums. The single "Gotta Have Love," from that album featuring Tony Terry on background vocals, gained mainstream notoriety and was her first single and music video. Her next release was 1995's More Than a Melody, which featured more production work from Tankard with contributions from O'Landa Draper, and BeBe Winans. One year later, Adams followed with Save the World, which included her first signature song "The Battle Is The Lord's". The collaboration received positive response from gospel, jazz and "quiet storm" formats. He featured Adams' vocals on his album and concept video single "You Bring Out The Best in Me" on his 1994 release Play Me in Your Key. Tankard's goal with Tribute Records during this time was to develop an audience for a smoother gospel/jazz sound. In 1990, she was discovered by producer/keyboardist Ben Tankard, and signed to his independent label Tribute Records and released Through The Storm. Later, she signed a recording contract with Sound of Gospel which yielded her first album Just As I Am in 1987. In 1986, Adams was featured on the Edwin Hawkins Music and Arts Seminar Choir released Give Us Peace, with a performance entitled "My Trust Lies in You". The choir released the single "For My Liberty" in 1982 with her as the featured vocalist. Eventually, she gave up teaching to perform full-time as a lead singer.Īdams first attracted the attention of Thomas Whitfield and Sound of Gospel Records as a lead singer with Houston's Southeast Inspirational Choir affiliated with the Church of God in Christ, under the direction of Carl Preacher, Brenda Waters, and Shirley Joiner.
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After graduating from Texas Southern University, she began a career as a schoolteacher and part-time model in Houston. She graduated from Sterling High School in Houston in 1979. The eldest of six siblings, Adams was born in Houston, Texas. In 2019, she became the first gospel singer and the fifth artist to receive the Soul Train Music Awards Lady of Soul Award,Īnd won critical acclaim for officially opening Super Bowl LIV with her performance of "America the Beautiful". In 2018, she became the first gospel artist nominated for a Tony Award for her work on SpongeBob SquarePants. She was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame by the Gospel Music Association in 2017. President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016 for her volunteer service. with her album Mountain High.Valley Low acknowledged as the best gospel album. Variety dubbed Adams as the "Reigning Queen of Urban Gospel".On December 11, 2009, Billboard named her the No. She was awarded the first American Music Award given to a contemporary gospel artist.She is known as the "Queen of Contemporary Gospel Music" and the "First Lady of Modern Gospel". She is one of gospel music's most-awarded artists having won 5 Grammy Awards, 4 Dove Awards, 5 BET Awards, 6 NAACP Image Awards, 6 Soul Train Music Awards, 2 BMI Awards and 16 Stellar Awards also being the first artist inducted into the Stellar Awards Hall of Fame.
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She has sold nearly 10 million albums worldwide, with some albums achieving multi-platinum status.
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Yolanda Yvette Adams (born August 27, 1961) is an American gospel singer, record producer, actress, and host of her own nationally syndicated morning gospel show.