Donnie McClurkin

Donald Andrew Donnie McClurkin, Jr. is an American gospel singer and minister. He has won three Grammy awards, ten Stellar awards, two BET awards, two Soul Train awards, one Dove award and one NAACP Image award. He is one of the top selling Gospel music artists, selling overmillion albums worldwide.

McClurkin was born in South Carolina and raised in Amityville, on Long Island. When he was eight years old, his twoyearold brother was hit and killed by a speeding driver. Soon after the loss, McClurkin experienced family turmoil due to the loss of his brother and shortly there after he was a victim of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of his great uncle, and years after that by his great uncles son. Two of his sisters dealt with substance abuse problems, and thats when the young McClurkin found solace in his going to a church and, also through an aunt of his who sang background vocals with gospel music musician, Andra Crouch. By the time that he was a teenager, he had formed the McClurkin Singers, and later he formed another group, the New York Restoration Choir.

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