Mattie moss clark biography
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Mattie Moss Clark
American gospel singer (1925–1994)
Musical artist
Mattie Moss Clark (born Mattie Juliet Moss; March 26, 1925 – September 22, 1994) was an American gospel choir director and the mother of The Clark Sisters, a gospel vocal group.
Mattie moss clark biography
She was the longest-serving International Minister of Music for the Church of God in Christ (COGIC). "Her arrangements, perhaps influenced by her classical training, replaced the unison or two-part textures of earlier gospel music with three-part settings of the music for soprano, alto, and tenor voice ranges—a technique that remained common in gospel choir music for decades afterward."[1]
Early life
Mattie Juliet Moss was born the seventh of nine children to ministers Fred John Moss and Mattie Juliet Walker in Selma, Alabama.[2] She began playing piano at six.
By twelve, she had become the musician for her mother's services at the Holiness Temple Church of Christ in Prayer[3] and traveled with her