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Doris Mae Akers (May 21, 1923 – July 26, 1995) [1] was an American gospel music composer, arranger and singer who is considered to be "one of the most underrated gospel composers of the 20th century [who] wrote more than 500 songs". [2]
Doris Akers was born on this date in 1923. She was a Black gospel composer and vocalist. Born in Brookfield, Missouri, she began her musical career at a young age. She played piano at age six, and her first song, "Keep the Fires Burning in Me," was written when she was ten.
8 Οκτ 2016 · In 1992, Akers was honored by the Smithsonian Institution as “the foremost black gospel songwriter in the United States”. She was posthumously inducted to the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2011 Doris Akers was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Doris Mae Akers (May 21, 1923 – July 26, 1995) was a biracial African-American gospel music composer, arranger and singer who is considered to be "one of the most underrated gospel composers of the 20th century [who] wrote more than 500 songs".
24 Φεβ 2022 · As they worked and prayed for better days, churches became crucial community gathering points, and their music helped form the soundtrack for the Black experience. Enter Doris Akers, who...
The Sky Pilot Choir pioneered a musical integration as well, the “Doris Akers/Sky Pilot Sound” updating traditional African American spirituals with 1950s arrangements and novel choir direction techniques.
23 Φεβ 2021 · Akers herself was born of a black mother but inherited her father’s fair skin, thus she is often counted as an African American composer and performer. Gospel historian Horace Clarence Boyer said of her music:
