OAKLAND — More than 2,000 people lined the streets around the Paramount Theatre Friday morning for free tickets to a musical tribute and a funeral for Grammy Award-winning artist Walter Hawkins. Many ...

It was a who's who of the gospel world gathered at the Paramount Theater to pay final respects to Grammy Award winner Bishop Walter Hawkins. The Oakland native passed away last week at age 61, after a ...

“Everybody has sung something written by Bishop Hawkins,” Bishop Wyatt I. Greenlee said about gospel icon Walter Hawkins, who passed away on Sunday. “Even if they didn’t know it was him.” Hawkins, ...

Walter Hawkins, a Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, composer and pastor from Oakland, died Sunday at his home in the San Joaquin Valley community of Ripon, said his older brother, gospel singer ...

Walter Hawkins, the award-winning gospel singer and composer known for his exhilarating live performances and as pastor of Oakland's Love Center Church, died Sunday at his home in Ripon (San Joaquin ...

Walter Hawkins, a Grammy-winning gospel composer and singer whose songs brought a sense of contemporary rhythm to the howling, pleading, God-praising tradition of churchly ecstasy, died on Sunday at ...