Friday, June 27, 2008

Wintley Phipps

Wintley Phipps is arguably Adventism's most famous singer. A YouTube video of Phipps singing Amazing grace is among the top religious YouTube videos of all time with many millions of hits! Phipps traces his roots to the Carribean; he was born in Trinidad / Tobago in 1955.



In addition to his YouTube megapopularity, Wintley Phipps started the US Dream Academy. He also founded Songs of Freedom Publishing Company and Coral Records Recording Company. But that's not all, no no! Phipps entertains all sorts of people. He has performed for Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush I and II, Bill Clinton, Mother Teresa, the Democratic National Conventions of '84 and '88, and has toured with Billy Graham. And if that were not enough, Wintley Phipps is also an ordained Seventh-day Adventist minister.

AND if your church has the money and the time to book him, Wintley Phipps will sing for YOU!

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