“AN EVENING WITH THE FIRST LADY OF GOSPEL” TO HONOR SHIRLEY WILLIS!

SHIRLEY WILLIS— Sunday’s concert to combine performance, award— By Mel Cooke— Latoya Messam encountered gospel singer Shirley Willis in two of her formative childhood spaces, the church and school. Willis was a friend of Messam’s pastor “and she would frequent my church and I would watch her … She would even come to my school (St Catherine High).”

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