Lecresia Campbell

                              

                           Lecresia Campbell 

Actress, Singer, Worshipper are words that best describe Lecresia Campbell. 

Born in Chicago, as a child, Lecresia wanted to be a school teacher. After receiving her Bachelor of Arts in Applied Voice from Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi, Ms. Campbell taught elementary school for 8 years. Ms. Campbell took a leave of absence to pursue her passion.

Ms.Campbell was the lead singer on Walt Whitman & the Soul Children of Chicago’s 1990 gospel smash, “Perfect Praise (How Excellent).” After recording her rendition of “Perfect Praise (How Excellent),” which took the nation by storm, Lecresia became a background vocalist for Vanessa Bell Armstrong and later shared the stage as a solo artist with singers such as Larnelle Harris, Donnie McClurkin, Mary Mary, Gerald Levert, Stephanie Mills, and a host of others.

Lecresia began captivating audiences in musical plays such as Dreamgirls, in which she starred as Effie. She performed in two of David Talbert's hit shows Mr. Right Now and His Woman, His Wife. Both productions toured the country performing to sold out audience for 3 years. She recently played TV Judge Mathis’ mother in Tell it to the Judge.

 In 2008,Ms. Campbell recorded a solo album, Even Me, which earned her a Stellar Award nomination for Best Female Vocalist – Traditional. Most recently, she could be heard on The Shalom Church City of Peace Mass Choir’s album, Simply Amazing, singing “When I See the Blood;” and leading “Draw Me Nearer” on the Mississippi Mass Choir’s 2014 release, Declaration of Dependence.

 No one who has heard Ms. Campbell sing will forget the skyrocketing high notes that she would pepper into her presentations. Lecresia has been a regular on Trinity Broad Casting Network (TBN) with Tommy Tenney, author of The God Chasers, and Bishop Eddie Long, pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.

Ms. Campbell had the number five spot on the chart with the hit Magnify from the Gospel Heritage Praise and Worship project and currently is working on the DVD of Lecresia Campbell’s Greatest Hits. Lecresia was in a lane of her own, a sought-after psalmist best known for her song “Perfect Praise (How Excellent),” which was recorded with Walt Whitman &  The Soul Children of Chicago. She mixed traditional gospel with her classical training, something we’d later coin “gospera.” But Lecresia was a powerhouse; a show-stopping singer that knew how to invoke the presence of God.

                          Lecresia Campbell Magnify Him playlist

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http://www.kennedy-center.org/Artist/A60754