The Original Five Blind Boys of Mississippi

The Original Five Blind Boys of Mississippi

The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi was an American gospel group.
Powered by lead singer Archie Brownlee, their single "Our Father" reached the Billboard Rhythm & Blues charts in the early 1950s, one of the first gospel records to do so.

The group originated in 1936 as a quartet of students from the Piney Woods School for the blind near Jackson, Mississippi. The students — Brownlee, Joseph Ford, Lawrence Abrams, and Lloyd Woodard — originally sang under the name "the Cotton Blossom Singers" Read more on Last.fm

Genres
Gospel

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