The Edwin Hawkins Singers/Blue Mink: Royal Albert Hall, London
David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 18 December 1970
IN PRACTICALLY every biography written about today's soul singers, mention is made of how he or she began singing in church; so much so that there is hardly one artist who didn't start by being a member of their local church choir.
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