Marvin Sapp
Marvin Sapp
Pastor Marvin Louis Sappis an American Gospel music singer-songwriter who recorded with the group Commissioned during the 1990s before beginning a record-breaking solo career. Sapp is also the founder and senior pastor of Lighthouse Full Life Center Church, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGospel Singer
Date of Birth28 January 1967
CityGrand Rapids, MI
CountryUnited States of America
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Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today's popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir.
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I chose to sing in the church, and have never regretted it.
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My wife was a licensed psychologist by profession and a college professor of psychology.
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One thing I don't personally like is not having that privacy I used to have. Being able to do whatever I wanted to do without people recognizing me. That makes me watch what I'm doing more carefully. I'm not going to be acting no fool.
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My father was a singer. So it just kind of happened that one Sunday while my dad was singing, I just walked out and stood next to him, and I started singing the song that he was leading, and I sang it in perfect pitch.
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The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.
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The best way to honor someone who has passed is to live.
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I'm just a hometown boy from Grand Rapids, Michigan - where I still live - who is trying do what he feels that he's been called to do.
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I want people to understand that tragedy and trial does not necessarily mean that you are a victim.
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Now we have so many different genres of music, it's amazing to me. Even in the gospel music arena, you've got hip-hop, you got contemporary, urban contemporary, you got traditional, you got neo-soul gospel, you've got all of these different things.
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I tell people all the time, 'As long as my kids are doing good, I'm gonna be alright.'
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In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet.