When Chicago gospel singer Albertina Walker sang in church, you believed the stained glass windows surely would shatter. Yet it wasn’t just Walker’s enormous contralto that made her the “Queen of ...

Dorothy Norwood presents an eloquent, thought-provoking summarization of how the Caravans gospel singers helped “pave the way” for blacks to achieve racial equality. In the title track, Norwood says ...

Albertina Walker, the Grammy-winning vocalist known around the world as the “Queen of Gospel” who helped launch some of the biggest names in traditional gospel through her vocal ensemble the Caravans, ...

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Albertina Walker, a gospel singer with a lush contralto voice whose group, the Caravans, recorded a string of hits in the 1950s and 1960s and nourished the careers of such greats as the Rev. James ...

Grammy-winning singer Albertina Walker, who was known as the “Queen of Gospel,” has died at age 81. Close friend and WVON radio host Pam Morris says Walker died Friday morning of respiratory failure ...