Timothy Wright (June 17, 1947 – April 24, 2009), generally credited as Rev. Timothy Wright or Reverend Timothy Wright on recordings, was an American gospel singer and pastor.

Biography

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in the 1960s and 1970s, including on recordings, and he formed his own gospel ensemble in the mid-1970s, the Timothy Wright Concert Choir. He eventually became pastor of the Pentecostal Grace Tabernacle Christian Center Church of God in Christ located in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and issued albums regularly from 1990. Wright's 1994 album ''Come Thou Almighty King'', with the New York Fellowship Mass Choir, made

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’s Top 20 chart for gospel albums and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album, as was his 1999 release ''Been There Done That''.Timothy Wright, Famed Gospel Singer, Dies at 61
'' Billboard.com'', April 24, 2009. On the heels of this success, Wright and the New York Fellowship Mass Choir appeared in a 1995 episode of the television show '' New York Undercover''. On July 4, 2008, Wright was critically injured in a car crash on

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in Pennsylvania, a crash which killed his wife and grandson as well as the driver of the oncoming car. He died April 24, 2009, as a result of these injuries, at the age of 61.

Discography

References

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