Raymond Anthony Myles

Much like Al Green, Raymond Anthony Myles was an R&B-influenced gospel singer who arrived of the wealthy Brand-new Orleans music scene. Myles would did well being a secular R&B musician if he previously chosen to move that path, but, rather, he trapped to Christian music. The vocalist was just 12 when, in 1969, he documented his one, “Prayer From a 12-Year-Old Boy,” which needed an end towards the Vietnam Battle and came at the same time once the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther Ruler Jr. and Robert Kennedy had been clean in people’s thoughts. As a grown-up, Myles produced the Raymond Anthony Myles Performers (RAMS) and became a fixture within the Southern gospel circuit, where he sang with such favorites as Shirley Caesar, Andrew Crouch, the Mighty Clouds of Pleasure, the Winans, and Rev. Al Green. Myles’ initial album being a head, New Orleans Gospel Genius, arrived in 1988, as well as the ’90s discovered him documenting for NYNO, a label which was co-founded with the well-known New Orleans manufacturer/songwriter Allen Toussaint. Myles’ lifestyle was trim tragically brief on Oct 11, 1998, when he was murdered by way of a carjacker at age 41.