She first sang gospel, before becoming a jazz singer.
We sang gospel because we weren't allowed to sing anything else.
His mother and stepfather who used to sing gospel were his first influences.
According to Burke, "Their idea was, we have another young kid to sing gospel, and we're going to put him in the blues bag."
"They look at you like, 'Yeah, right, you're going to sing gospel?' "
You wonder now if you should sing secular or gospel?
Mahalia sang gospel, but she put her own special touch on it.
They also attended church picnics and the boys sang gospel on stage.
Her brothers sang gospel and formed a quartet with a friend.
He sang gospel in his local church as a youngster.