Greensboro Symphony 2006-2007 Season

2008 Community Gospel Concert
Thursday January 24, 2008
- 8:00 PM

Wintley Phipps

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2008 Gospel Concert featuring Whitley Phipps

Wintley Phipps was born in Trinidad and Tobago. Phipps is an ordained Seventh-day Adventist minister, world-renowned vocal artist, and innovative initiator of special projects such as the US Dream Academy founder of Songs of Freedom Publishing Company and Coral Records Recording Company. Mr. Phipps has been the featured speaker and performer at many notable occasions around the world. He has performed for American President Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush at several National Prayer Breakfast events and other distinguished celebrations. He performed for: the 1984 and 1988 National Democratic Conventions, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, President Nelson Mandela. He has appeared on various programs such as the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. television special, Dr. Robert Schuller's Hour of Power Telecast, the Billy Graham Crusades, the Vatican, and was guest soloist at Diana Ross' wedding ceremony in Switzerland, and the Oprah Winfrey Show. He has also conducted lectures in Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa and North and South America. Wintley is married to Linda Diane Galloway Phipps and they have three sons: Wintley Augustus, II, Winston Adriel, and Wade Alexander.

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