Sherman Andrus

SHERMAN ANDRUS
 
 
Sherman Andrus  (born June 23, 1942) is an American gospel singer, who is probably best known as the man who broke the “color barrier” by becoming the first African-American lead singer of a mainstream Christian music group (The Imperials).  He has been a very prolific artist who has been involved in one way or another with thirty gospel albums to date.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

In February 1972, one of the members of Andraé Crouch and the Disciples, Sherman Andrus broke the “color barrier” in gospel music when he was brought in as the first African-American lead singer of a “mainstream” gospel group, the Imperials.  Adopting the famous slogan of Star Trek, Andrus joked that he would “boldly go where no black man had gone before.”  

 

(July 2014)