Karen Harris Wheaton Towe is an American

Pentecostal Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a Protestant Charismatic Christian movement

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singer, and recording artist based in

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, Alabama, whose career has spanned the late 1970s until the present. Wheaton has been identified among notable "internationally known praise and worship artists". She has toured throughout the US, performing at events that also featured preachers and Christian artists such as Jim Bakker,

Jimmy Swaggart Jimmy Lee Swaggart (; born March 15, 1935) is an American Pentecostalism, Pentecostal televangelism, televangelist, southern gospel, gospel music recording artist, pianist, and Christian author. His television ministry, which began in 1971, an ...

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, and the

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. Her singing voice is classified in the

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style, which is fused with

blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...

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, and bluegrass gospel influences. She is the founder and director of The Ramp, a youth ministry located in the city of

Hamilton, Alabama Hamilton is a city in and the county seat of Marion County, Alabama, United States. It incorporated in 1896 and since 1980 has been the county's largest city, surpassing Winfield. It was previously the largest town in 1910. At the 2020 census, ...

. The Ramp operates with the goal of "awaken nga generation", holding Christian rallies, concerts, and conferences for different groups of worshipers.

Discography

* Live in the Spirit (1989) * Promise (1991) * Remembering (1992) * Pentecostal Fire (1994) * There Is a God (1995) * Gentle Breezes (1996) * I'm Still Here (1997) * Miracle in Motion (1997) * My Alabaster Box (1998) * Church (2000) * Nothin But Good - 20 years - (2000) * Freedom (2003) * Believe (2006)

Bibliography

* Watching the Road: Praying Your Prodigal Home (2018)

References

External links

Karen Wheaton official siteWheaton's YouTube channel with album playlists and more videos
American gospel singers Living people 1960 births Pentecostals from Alabama People from Hamilton, Alabama {{Christianity-bio-stub