RIPON, Calif. (CBS/AP) Walter Hawkins, a Grammy award-winning gospel singer, composer and pastor from Oakland died Sunday after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 61. Hawkins passed away at his home ...
OAKLAND — Oakland native Walter Hawkins, a Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, was still a divinity student when he recorded his first record. By the time the tenor had his first hit — “Oh Happy Day” ...
An hour into “Sister Act 2,” Whoopi Goldberg leads a choir of students who look like they’d rather be anywhere than onstage. A young Lauryn Hill and a dozen teenagers mumble along to what sounds like ...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) -- Grammy Award-winning gospel music composer, singer and chorus master Edwin Hawkins, whose arrangement of "Oh Happy Day" for a Bay Area church choir became an international ...