An Interview with Edwin Hawkins - a Gospel Music Legend.This show is an one on one interview with Edwin Hawkins - a Gospel music legend. Edwin Hawkins is a Grammy Award-winning American gospel and R&B musician, pianist, choir master, composer, and arranger. Edwin Hawkins is one of the originators of the urban contemporary gospel sound. He and the Edwin Hawkins Singers are best known for his arrangement of "Oh Happy Day" (1968–69), which was included on the Songs of the Century list.

Edwin Hawkins began singing in his church youth choir while still a toddler, and by age five was playing piano; just two years later, he assumed full-time piano accompaniment duties for the family gospel group, making their recorded debut in 1957. A decade later, Edwin Hawkins and Betty Watson co-founded the Northern California State Youth Choir, drawing on the finest soloists from throughout the Bay Area to build the 50-member ensemble, which soon entered the studio to cut the 1968 LP Let Us Go into the House of the Lord, its modern, R&B-influenced production pointing the way to a new era in gospel recording.

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