Myrna Summers
Myrna Summers (born March 30, 1949) is a gospel music singer who has performed professionally for over four decades and is now the Minister of Music at Reid Temple A.M.E. Church in Glenn Dale, Maryland. She has a commanding yet distinctive alto voice. Summers was born in Washington D.C. in 1949. Her parents were members of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), and she performed in services at the Refreshing Spring Church in Riverdale, Maryland from a very early age. She attended the McKinley Tech High School, and went on to the University of Maryland and the Toutorsky Academy of Music. She formed a group ''the Refreshingnettes'' in the early 1960s. The group recorded "Pray Your Troubles / I'm Determined" for HOB Records. Her original compositions "God Gave Me a Song" (1970) and "Give Me Something to Hold on To" (1979) earned her Grammy Award nominations. She was the 1970 recipient of the Gospel Music Workshop of America's Mahalia Jackson Award. Her album entitled "We Going To Mak ...
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