Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens

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Like many gospel and rhythm and blues singers, Naomi Davis Shelton learned to sing at an early age in the very church where she was baptized. Her parents were very dedicated and involved members of Mt. Coney Baptist Church in Midway, Alabama, and by age six, she was already singing there alongside her two older sisters, Hattie Mae and Annie Ruth. Her father was a designer who had built some of the radio studios out in Tuskegee, and every Sunday morning all through high school, the Davis Sisters would sing on a regular half-hour broadcast from one of the very studios their father built. As a little girl, Naomi was inspired by the southern gospel quartets like Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers, and the Five Blind Boys of Alabama. READ MORE…


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