The creation of gospel choir genius James Cleveland, the
Southern California Community Choir
is easily the world’s most recognizable gospel choir as well as one its foremost gospel groups. If Cleveland single-handedly gave the world a picture of the modern black gospel choir, in the iconic “image of a choir in white robes swinging in unison around a hot rhythm section
” as one scholar has suggested, then the Southern California Community Choir was that picture.
Founded in the...