Elizabeth King

Elizabeth King has been singing since she was three. In fact, she fronted a 10-man group, the Gospel Souls, for almost 40 years, starting at the dawn of the ’70s when she first recorded for Pastor Juan Shipp and his D-Vine Spirituals label. But, while she’s always sung at home and church, she hadn’t…

At the age of 77, Memphis sacred soul singer Elizabeth King is releasing her first full-length album, Living in the Last Days. She talks about it with NPR’s Debbie Elliott.

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The story of the 77-year-old gospel singer, Elizabeth King, is the story of a life of hard work. King, who grew up on a Tennessee plantation, started working at five years old with her father. At nine years old, she began picking cotton and chopping corn. She worked so well with her brother that the…

Elizabeth King’s debut album, “Living in the Last Days,” captures the joy and pain of a remarkable life.

New album ‘Living in the Last Days’ brought Elizabeth King back to a recording studio for the first time since the ’70s.

King made some recordings in the 1970s, but then quit the music business to raise her children. Now in her late 70s, she’s released her first full-length solo album: Living in the Last Days.

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