As a teenager, the Alabama native toured the gospel circuit with Mahalia Jackson.

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Working with generations of gospel singers, Dorsey turned the city into the focal point of gospel music, and his blues-tinged hymns became classics, recorded by gospel greats like Mahalia Jackson.

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And when you look at the success that you all had as forerunners, and people like Lance Allen and James Cleveland and others, the heightened fame that you guys had, in comparison, outside of, you know, maybe James Cleveland, and Mahalia Jackson, when you think about it, Yolanda Adams, Donny McClerkin, C.

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