Stellar Award nominee Vicki Yohe has been at the forefront
of the praise and worship music movement on the church circuit where she turned
songs such as “The Mercy Seat,” “Under The Blood” and “Something About My
Praise,” into international anthems via her soul-stirring performances of the
songs at mass evangelistic crusades all over the globe.
Billboard Magazine says of Yohe’s ministry, “For believers
looking to lose themselves in a wonderful worship experience, this is the next
best thing to being in a pew.” Yohe’s ministry has even afforded her the
opportunity to appear as a Keynote speaker at a Pentagon Prayer Breakfast. Shehas
also ministered in song alongside some of today’s well-known pastors and
evangelists including Bill Winston, Juanita Bynum, TD Jakes, Creflo Dollar,
Darlene Bishop and Paula White. A lot of artists sing about saving souls but
Vicki Yohe is actually doing it. Not only is sheraising two adopted sons but
she’s also the spiritual mama to three dozen African children at an orphanage
she founded in 2005 in Uganda, New Destiny for Children. “I’ve been nominated
for several awards and ministered to 2.8 million people at a Benny Hinn crusade
in India but none of this feels as good as taking care of my children in
Uganda.
God’s Peace. Tuesday, April 9t, 2013, Vicki Yohe will hold
one of the most anticipated and riveting praise experiences of 2013, when she appears
at the FaithWorld Center in Orlando. During this special evening, Yohe will be
recording her new CD and DVD Free Worshipper, anticipated for release on
Shanachie Entertainment in August 2013. Vicki Yohe will reunite with celebrated
recording artist and producer Kendall Duffie who produced her last two
recordings Reveal Your Glory and I’m At Peace. Duffie has also produced,
recorded and executive produced Stellar Award-winning artists such as Marvin
Winans, Bishop Paul Morton, Evelyn Turrentine-Agee, as well as Maysa Leak and MitchellJones
of Commissioned.
Born into a minister’s family, Vicki wrote and sang her
first song at the age of five and by 17 she entered bible school, and after two
years, she accepted a Music Director’s position near Baton Rouge, LA. Vicki and
her sister, Terri, were a teenage singing duo who traveled with their evangelizing
father. Her musical influences included Tramaine Hawkins and Aretha Franklin.
In 1992, she recorded her first project Everlasting Love which was followed by
I Give You Love in 1995 and He Knows My Heart in 1997. Christmas Presence was
released in 2000 followed by Beyond This Song the following year. Upon meeting
CeCe Winans at a television taping, the two artists discovered they were fans
of each other’s music. Not long after,
Winans signed Yohe as her first artist on her newly created PureSprings Gospel
label. The first project I Just Want You was a huge success off of the strength
of the radio single, “Because of Who You Are,” it garnered nominations for both
Dove and Stellar awards. Her second release fromPureSprings, He’s Been
Faithful. In 2009 Vickie Yohe made her critically acclaimed Shanachie Entertainment
debut, Reveal Your Glory: Live from the Cathedral, her first live recording,
and the following year released her DVD of the same title (both recorded at the
Word of Faith Family Worship Cathedral in Atlanta, GA). 2011 followed with her
acclaimed live recording I’m At Peace
which was recorded at Bethel World Outreach in Brentwood, TN.
Vicki Yohe extends an invitation to all and concludes, “I
love when I’mon the road and people come up to me and sometimes I really have
to strain my brain to think if I’ve met thembefore because they approach me
like they know me and say things like, `How have you been?’ They never met me
before but they feel like they know me because they’ve seen me on TBN or maybe
they saw me at a concert 15 years ago. I love that. I don’t want to be a
stranger and I want themto feel comfortable enough to come up to me because I
ama praise and worship leader. I want to lead people into the presence of God.
I’min a really good place. I just feel I’m at peace.”
Source: uGospel
No comments:
Post a Comment