Kim Burrell defies explanation. The Lord sat so heavy on this woman's gift it broke every musical scale along with all proverbial molds of talent. Her diaphragm is like a holster; she shoots notes right from the hipline, anointed and improvised.It takes great skill to change the pitch, multiple times in one single syllabized note as Burrell does. She has mastered this most dynamical melismatic singing without any formal training, even after battling double pneumonia for eight years as a child. Her incorporation of music with classical jazz attributes into a repertoire of mostly gospel music has many regarding her as a contemporary Ella Fitzgerald. On May 17th, 2011 her inspirational soul record The Love Album was released which contains music that is personal but still religious in nature, dispelling rumors that Burrell’s Christian life will be compromised by a secular album; these new songs are fully adaptable for sacred use. In conjunction with the launching of her the new album the domain backstagewithkim.com was unveiled, which included exclusive pictures that portrayed a day in the life of Kim Burrell. She had taken off an estimated 100lbs and was dazzlingly clad in a new beauty treatment.
On Friday, November 11, 2011.That evening He was able to ask Kim about her favorite devotional song, if she’d ever consider televising her ministry, or whether she’ll be recording a duet with Whitney Houston.
Last year was the year when Kim Burrell and Whitney Houston publicly encouraged each other, in all places. In early January 2010 the BET Honors were held and Kim Burrell shocked honoree, Whitney Houston with a tribute performance of “I Believe in You and Me,” from The Preacher’s Wife Soundtrack. Later in May, Kim joined Whitney on stage in Munich, Germany during Houston’s comeback tour. In December, Kim Burrell and Whitney Houston sang "I Look to You" at the recording of BET’s Celebration of Gospel which aired in January 2011. Then in February of 2011 Burrell celebrated her installation as Pastor of Love and Liberty Fellowship Church in Houston, Texas, where Whitney attended and spoke the 122nd psalm, from the Book of Psalms, over Kim at the ceremony.
I asked Kim:
Is there any hope of a duet with you and Whitney Houston?
“Sure, we’re working on it” Kim said. She went on to tell me how they were recently together in Shelby, NC (for a charity event where Pat and Whitney Houston both presented Burrell with the Ambassadors Award for her continued work with the Teen Summit), and that Whitney was busy completing the production of a remake of the 1976 American film Sparkle about three sisters brought up singing in a local church choir, who form a successful musical group then later contend with the cost fame and drug abuse.
I’ve heard portions of “Love Lifted Me” and “He Never Said A Muberlin' Word” tied in with your music, what is you favorite devotional song?
"I Need Thee Every Hour”
In the vein of other great clergywomen such as Pastor Sheryl Brady and Joyce Meyer, would you consider televising your ministry at Love and Liberty Fellowship Church?
“Absolutely,” she answered. And I would like to add, if favor is a promise that answers God’s purpose, then it will serve the whole world that He not go back on His pledge of bestowing Kim’s ministry favor. That is my joyful hope, and I declare it a blessed office. What's more, I pray her music and worship will lay a healing unction to every soul, the way it has for mine...
Thanks toWilliam Murray
Office of Executive Secretary of Bronx Community College's Student Government Association & Staff Writer of The Communicator (BCC's campus newspaper)
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