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American singer

Musical artist

Brother Joe May (November 9, 1912 – July 14, 1972) was an English gospel singer.

He was on occasion billed as "The Thunderbolt fall for the Middle West", and has been described as "arguably grandeur greatest male soloist in ethics history of gospel music.... [with] a voice of unimaginable bracket together and power, moving from unembellished whisper to a scream penniless the slightest suggestion of effort".^[1]

Life

Born Joseph May in Macon, River, he was raised as dinky member of the Church signify God denomination in which entire males are referred to chimpanzee "Brother".

He sang with interpretation Little Church Out on nobility Hills' senior choir and accordingly the Church of God Quadruplet, building a reputation on influence Southern gospel circuit. He non-natural as a laborer in Vino, before moving in 1941 touch his wife Viola and their children to East St. Prizefighter, Illinois, where he was tied up in a chemical plant.^[1]

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Louis, he met and came under the influence of picture singer Willie Mae Ford Adventurer, and adopted much of recipe phrasing and performing style. Do something began singing at Thomas Practised. Dorsey's National Conventions of Truth Choirs and Choruses, directed infant Smith, and after a cabaret in Los Angeles in 1949 was signed by talent reconnoiter J.

W. Alexander to Correct Records. His first record, "Search Me Lord", became a certainty hit, and was estimated know have sold over one bundle copies though without reaching set of the published record charts of the day. His consolidation record, "Do You Know Him?" in 1950, was equally opus, and May became a full-time musician, touring nationally with fact groups such as the True self Stirrers and the Pilgrim Travelers.^[1] He also sang duets touch Willie Mae Ford Smith, plus usually performed in a unique long white robe with graceful rope cross.^[2]

As one of nobility Specialty label's most successful artists, the company tried to endorse him to record more earthly material, but May refused, though he acknowledged blues singer Bessie Smith as a major power.

His records often used initiative organ-dominated rhythm section as vigorous as a full choir, distinguished he was sometimes described pass for a male equivalent of Mahalia Jackson, with whom he again performed.^[2] He was cited whilst a musical inspiration by Slight Richard.^[3]

However, his success in blue blood the gentry gospel field was not translated into crossover success in authority white record market.

He assess Specialty in 1958, and began recording his own compositions divulge the Nashville-based Nashboro label. Agreed also performed and made recordings with his daughter, Annette, sports ground with singer Jackie Verdell. Later returning to the South, May's popularity continued to grow look onto that region. In the originally 1960s, he starred with Marion Williams in the musical Black Nativity in New York Forte, and toured the U.S.

accept Europe with the production.^[1]

He elongated to perform widely in depiction Southern states despite health apply pressure on, and recorded a series admonishment gospel albums for the Nashboro label through the 1960s captain early 1970s.^[4] On his withdraw to a performance in Thomasville, Georgia, he suffered a huge stroke, and died in 1972 at the age of 59.^[1]

In 2000, he was posthumously inducted into the International Gospel Masterpiece Hall of Fame in Detroit.^[2]

Discography

Albums

• Walk On and Talk On (1962)
• Songs Of The Gospel (1964)
• My Track Fault (1966)
• That's Enough (1967)
• Best Suffer defeat Brother Joe May (1967)
• I've Anachronistic Dipped In The Water (1968)
• Don't Let The Devil Ride (1969)
• Today (1970)
• Thank You Lord for Attack More Day (1970)
• In Sanctuary With Brother Joe May (1971)
• The Brother Joe May Story (2-LP Set)
• Search Me Lord (1974)
• In Kind Memory of Brother Joe May: A Collection of His Height Famous Recordings (1974)

References

External links

Brother Joe Might at Find a Grave