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Selah Jubilee Singers

Author: ROBERT SACRÉ

T. Ruth’s family moved from South Carolina to Brooklyn, New York, around 1922. They joined St. Mark Holy Church (Pentecostal), under a lady pastor (Bishop Eva Lambert). By age twelve, Ruth organized the Selah Jubilee Six with members of the church choir. They sang every Sunday in their church for about ten years; the service was broadcast, and they sang on four radio stations. They started out as disciples of the Fisk Jubilee Quartet , but in 1937, Bishop Lambert took...

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