Which nine-time Grammy Award-winning gospel group helped found the National Quartet Convention?
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National Quartet Convention The first National Quartet Convention was held in 1957. J. D. Sumner, Cecil Blackwood and James Blackwood of The Blackwood Brothers were the founders of the famous National Quartet Convention formerly held in Memphis, Tennessee. The National Quartet Convention featured all the major gospel groups at a three-day event at the Ellis Auditorium in Memphis, Tennessee. After the first couple of years, the NQC was moved to Birmingham, Alabama in 1959 and Atlanta, Georgia in 1960. It returned to Memphis in 1961 and was drawing annual crowds of 20,000 by the mid-1960s. Sumner bought the convention in 1971 and moved it to Nashville, Tennessee in 1972, where it remained until 1993. The National Quartet Convention was held in Nashville, Tn. through 1993. After 1993, it was moved to a new home, Louisville, Kentucky. In 2014 the convention moved to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
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The Blackwood Brothers The Blackwood Brothers are an American southern gospel quartet. They are nine-time Grammy Award-winning pioneers of the Christian music industry.
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Mitchell's Christian Singers Mitchell's Christian Singers were an American gospel music group who recorded prolifically between 1934 and 1940.
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Latice Crawford Latice Crawford (born July 22, 1982 as Latice Tenae Crawford) is an American urban contemporary gospel singer and composer. She is best known for using her three-octave, contralto vocal range of to finish third on the second season of the competitive gospel singing television show "Sunday Best" on Black Entertainment Television. Her self-titled debut album reached two "Billboard" charts, the Top Gospel Albums and the Top Heatseekers. Her second album, "Diary of a Church Girl", also appeared on the Top Gospel Albums chart.
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Singing Stewarts The Singing Stewarts were the first major British Gospel group. The five brothers and three sisters of the Stewart family were born in Trinidad and migrated to Handsworth in Birmingham in 1961. They were all members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and under the training of their mother began to sing in an "a cappella" style songs that mixed traditional Southern gospel songs with Caribbean calypso.
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Get Away, Jordan Get Away, Jordan is a live CD/DVD released by Christian gospel quartet Ernie Haase & Signature Sound. The album was produced by Gaither Music Group and released on January 23, 2007.
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Kirk Talley Kirk Lewis Talley (born June 9, 1958), is an American Southern Gospel performer/songwriter. Talley is best known for his time as a tenor singer with the legendary Gospel Quartet The Cathedrals, The Talley's, and also the family group The Hoppers, along with a very successful solo career as a singer and songwriter.
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Joe and Eddie Joe and Eddie was an American gospel folk group. During their careers, the African-American duo composed of Joe Gilbert and Eddie Brown toured the United States and Canada, appeared on more than 20 major television shows, and recorded eight albums.
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Shane Dunlap Shane Dunlap was the original lead singer for Ernie Haase & Signature Sound, a Southern Gospel quartet. Prior to that, he was a founding member of N'Harmony. After leaving Signature Sound, he started a solo career.
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National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. The National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. (National Baptist Convention) is the largest predominantly African-American Christian denomination in the United States. It is headquartered at the Baptist World Center in Nashville, Tennessee. The denomination claims approximately 31,000 congregations.
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Pilgrim Travelers The Pilgrim Travelers were a gospel group popular in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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Cassietta George Cassietta George (born Cassietta Baker on January 23, 1929 in Memphis, Tennessee-January 3, 1995 in Los Angeles, California) was an American gospel vocalist, and composer. George was a member of Queen of Gospel Albertina Walker's The Caravans, the most popular touring gospel group from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s. She later launched a successful solo career, recording over 16 albums in Los Angeles for Audio Arts Inc. Along the way, George wrote over a hundred songs, and was twice nominated for a Grammy in 1969 & 1979, for Best Soul Gospel Performance. In 2017, she was inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.
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Southern Baptist Convention The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a Christian denomination based in the United States. With more than 15 million members as of 2015 , it is the world's largest Baptist denomination, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, and the second-largest Christian denomination in the United States after the Catholic Church.
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The Gotee Brothers The Gotee Brothers were a Contemporary Christian Music group formed of Toby McKeehan (tobyMac), Joey Elwood, and Todd Collins that recorded one album in the 1990s entitled "ERACE". The album's name abbreviated "Eliminating Racism and Creating Equality", and its contents dealt with racial issues. McKeehan is currently a Grammy Award-winning solo artist who was also part of the Grammy Award-winning group dcTalk from 1988-2001. Both McKeehan and Elwood are co-founders of Gotee Records, best known for bringing acts to the scene such as GRITS, Family Force 5, Relient K, and Stephanie Smith.
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Kevin Davidson and The Voices Kevin Davidson and The Voices formally "Kevin Davidson and the Voices of Binghampton" is an American Gospel music choir from Memphis, Tennessee.
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The Philharmonics The Philharmonics were a versatile African-American vocal quintet from Springfield, Missouri who became successful despite origins in a then-racially-intolerant town and era. They were at their peak in the 1950s and performed across the United States. The group could adapt to many styles of music from gospel, rhythm and blues and pop to country and Western. They had splendid harmony, choreography, a colorful wardrobe and an impeccable stage presence.
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Four Tops The Four Tops are an American vocal quartet from Detroit, Michigan who helped to define the city's Motown sound of the 1960s. The group's repertoire has included soul music, R&B, disco, adult contemporary, doo-wop, jazz, and show tunes.
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Triumphant Quartet The Triumphant Quartet (formerly Integrity Quartet until 2005) is a United States Southern Gospel group that performed at The Miracle Theater in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. They sang at the theater from 2003–2005, when it was known as The Louise Mandrell Theater. They now travel on a full-time concert schedule.
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Fisk Jubilee Singers The Fisk Jubilee Singers are an African-American "a cappella" ensemble, consisting of students at Fisk University. The first group was organized in 1871 to tour and raise funds for college. Their early repertoire consisted mostly of traditional spirituals, but included some Stephen Foster songs. The original group toured along the Underground Railroad path in the United States, as well as performing in England and Europe. Later 19th-century groups also toured in Europe.
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RCA Inspiration RCA Inspiration (formerly Verity Gospel Music Group) is a gospel music group operating under Sony Music.
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Four Statesmen The Four Statesmen is a Barbershop quartet that won the 1967 SPEBSQSA international competition.
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American Baptist Churches USA The American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) is a Baptist Christian denomination within the United States. The denomination maintains headquarters in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The organization is usually considered mainline, although varying theological and mission emphases may be found among its congregations, including modernist, charismatic and evangelical orientations. It traces its history to the First Baptist Church in America (1638) and the Baptist congregational associations which organized the Triennial Convention in 1814. From 1907 to 1950, it was known as the Northern Baptist Convention, and from 1950 to 1972 as the American Baptist Convention.