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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
