Love Alive – Walter Hawkins and The Love Center Choir – 1975

Music has been the lynch pin to worship since the beginning of time. Through the years the Black church has always been a place of refuge, support and direction has always been the faith.

Via Eurweb.com: The world will say goodbye to gospel legend Walter Hawkins on Wednesday, July 21 in Oakland, Calif. A musical tribute will also commence the night before in his honor. Hawkins, pastor of Oakland’s Love Center Church, passed away July 11 after a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was only 61-years-old. Carrying on […]

VIA Jawn Murray at BLACKVOICES.com: Gospel music legend Bishop Walter Hawkins has died at age 61. The Grammy Award-winning contemporary gospel singer succumbed to a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer at his home in Ripon, Calif. on Sunday. “Today, I lost my brother, my pastor and my best friend,” said Hawkins’ brother, Edwin Hawkins. “Bishop […]