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Inez Andrews

American singer

1

James Cleveland

American musician

2

Shirley Caesar

American gospel singer, evangelist

3

Cassietta George

American musician

4

Bessie Griffin

American singer (1922–1989)

5

Mahalia Jackson

American gospel singer

6

The Barrett Sisters

7

Dottie Peoples

American musician

8

Mavis Staples

American singer

9

Roberta Martin

American musician

10

Yolanda Adams

American gospel singer and actress

11

Kim Burrell

American musician

12

Clara Ward

American gospel artist; singer, music arranger, songwriter

13

Stefanie Minatee

American singer/songwriter, recording artist and minister

14

Marvin Winans

American singer

15

Thomas A. Dorsey

American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music

16

Della Reese

American actress and singer

17

Willie Mae Ford Smith

American singer

18

Doris Akers

Music composer, arranger and singer

19

Ledisi

American R&B and jazz recording artist, songwriter and actress.

20

Miki Howard

American singer, actress

21

Al Green

American singer

22

Dorothy Moore

American singer

23

Fantasia Barrino

American actress and singer

24

CeCe Winans

American singer

25

Aretha Franklin

American singer, songwriter, and pianist

26

Jennifer Holliday

American actress and singer

27

Sandra Crouch

American musician

28

Susan Tedeschi

American blues and soul musician

29

Kirk Franklin

American musician

30

Kelly Price

American songwriter, singer

31

Jeanie Tracy

American musician

32

Andraé Crouch

American gospel singer, songwriter, arranger, record producer and pastor (1942-2015)

33

Vanessa Bell Armstrong

American singer

34

Roberta Flack

American singer

35

Coko

American singer (b. 1970)

36

Tramaine Hawkins

American gospel singer

37

Wanda Jackson

American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist

38

The Davis Sisters

American gospel group, founded in 1945

39

Doris Duke

American singer

40

Kristle Murden

American singer-songwriter

41

Thomas Whitfield

American gospel singer

42

The Dixie Hummingbirds

band

43

Anita Kerr

American singer, arranger, composer, conductor, pianist, and music producer

44

Dorothy Norwood

American Musician

45

Bobby Jones

Gospel music singer and television host from Nashville, Tennessee

46

Twinkie Clark

American musician

47

Cissy Houston

American singer

48

The Clark Sisters

American gospel vocal group

49

Big Maybelle

American R&B singer and pianist

50

Ashley Cleveland

Singer, songwriter

51

Dinah Washington

American singer, songwriter, pianist

52

Edwin Hawkins

American musician

53

Walter Hawkins

American musician

54

Karen Clark Sheard

American musician and songwriter

55

Fontella Bass

American singer

56

Irma Thomas

American soul and rhythm and blues singer

57

Deniece Williams

American singer

58

Tamela Mann

American actress and singer

59

Dottie Rambo

Gospel music singer-songwriter

60

Jason Crabb

American musician

61

The Jordanaires

American vocal group; back-up singers for Elvis Presley

62

Solomon Burke

American singer

63

Loleatta Holloway

American singer (1946–2011)

64

Ernestine Anderson

American jazz and blues singer

65

Gladys Knight

American singer

66

Mary Mary

American contemporary gospel duo