SHERMAN ANDRUS
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)
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