Robert anderson gospel composer biography
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Robert Anderson, 77, a world-famous gospel singer for 60 years, was a pioneer when that music form was born in Chicago. He also was a composer, arranger and writer of such songs as “Prayer Changes Things” and “Oh Lord, Is It I?”
A resident of the Chatham neighborhood, he died Thursday in South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest.
Many historians point to the early 1930s in Chicago and, more specifically, to the National Baptist Convention’s Jubilee meeting here in 1930, as the time when gospel music took on its distinct form. Thomas A. Dorsey, then the organist at Ebenezer Baptist Church on the South Side and the author of “Precious Lord, Take My Hand,” is considered its father.
Mr. Anderson, who was born in Mississippi, came to Chicago as a child and was a member of Ebenezer Church. He sang in its choir and was a member of a group formed there called the Roberta Martin Singers. He later formed the Robert Anderson Good Shepherd Singers.
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Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson or Andersen may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
[edit]- Robert Anderson (editor and biographer) (1750–1830), Scottish literary scholar and editor
- Robert Anderson (poet) (1770–1833), English poet
- Robert Rowand Anderson (1834–1921), Scottish architect
- Robert Anderson (silent film actor) (1890–1963), Danish-born American actor
- Robert Alexander Anderson (composer) (1894–1995), American composer
- Robert Anderson (filmmaker) (1913–1997), Canadian filmmaker
- Robert Anderson (playwright) (1917–2009), American playwright and screenwriter
- Robert Anderson (singer) (1919–1995), African-American gospel singer and composer
- Robert Theodore Anderson (1934–2009), American organist, composer, and pedagogue
- Robert G. W. Anderson (born 1944), historian, former director of the British Museum
- Robert Anderson (artist) (born 1946), American portrait artist
- Robert Mailer Anderson (born 1968), American novelist
- Robert Anderson (mayor) (fl. 1810s–1820s),
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Thou shalt tell me in the Glory
All that thou hast done,
Setting out alone, returning
Not alone.
Thou shalt bring the ransomed with thee;
They with songs shall come,
All the golden sheaves of harvest
Gathered Home.
T. P.; translated by FRANCES BEVAN."WHO of us appreciates aright the privilege, the responsibility, the solemnity of bringing the Gospel to our fellow-men? 'Evangelists' are as definitely the gift of our ascended Lord as are Pastors and Teachers (Eph. iv. i i); but the privilege and duty of making known the Gospel are not limited to Evangelists. No Christian therefore need wait for any human sanction for 'ministering the word of life' to a fellow-sinner. But here a caution is most necessary. We must never forget the solemnity of such work. Let us take heed that no levity marks either our words or our spirit as we man our appeals or give our testimony. We may come down to our own level as it were when reasoning with others