Marvin Yancy
Reverend Marvin Jerome Yancy was an American gospel musician, pastor and Grammywinning record producer, and former pastor of Fountain of Life Baptist Church. He started his music career, in 1971, with the The Independents, who were an American RampB vocal group. His lone solo album, Heavy Load, was released on January 1, 1985, by Nashboro Records, and it placed at No.on the Billboard magazine Gospel Albums chart.
Yancy was born on May 31, 1950, in Chicago, Illinois, as Marvin Jerome Yancy, to Reverend Robert Yancy Sr., who was the pastor of Fountain of Life Baptist Church, at the time of his death in 1977, and his mother, Anne. This was when Marvin stepped into the pastoral role of the church that he led until his death. Yancy was a graduate of Cooley Vocational High School and went on to graduate from Moody Bible Institute along with The Chicago Bible Institute. Yancy was one of twelve siblings he was one of eight brothers, Robert Jr., Kevin, Derrick, Sherwin, Stevie, Darrel, Melvin and Terry, along with Four sisters that were in his family, Geraldine, Faye and Judith, Linda.
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