John P. Kee

The Reunion New Life Community Choir featuring John P. Kee

As recounted by the Apostle John, in the 10th chapter of his Gospel, Jesus spoke one day, to all who would listen, a simple but profound truth about His purpose on earth: "I have come that you may have life," He said, "and have it more abundantly."

Almost two-thousand years later, in the early 1980s in Charlotte, N.C., another child of God named John turned his troubles over to Christ, and from the ashes of self-annihilation received that same promise of new life. And he was gifted…and gifted abundantly.

Since that time, John P. Kee has not only prospered as a songwriter and singer, record producer, entrepreneur and pastor, with a hit-filled repertoire of songs as leader of the renowned, chart-topping New Life Community Choir; he has become one of the most influential and beloved figures in Gospel music.

John’s deeply felt songs have always spoken to the heart, mind and spirit, and he was among the very first to bring together the worlds of traditional Gospel and modern R&B music into the mix known today as “Contemporary Gospel.”

New Life Community Choir (NLCC), formed by John and officially named with its first major-label release in 1987, has undergone numerous changes in personnel over its nearly twenty years of existence, each adding its own distinct and dynamic imprint to the ensemble.

Still, in the minds of many, no gathering of talents in NLCC has ever surpassed that of its original configuration of core voices, a number of whom have some time ago moved on to successful solo careers, including Gospel great Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Isaac Caree and Lowell Pye (now of the hit act Men of Standard), Lajuene Thompson, Sheila Lakin, and Rhonda McLemore. Realizing a dream that has been “percolating in the back of his mind” for a number of years, Pastor Kee, in the last year reassembled that very roster of singers to join him and the current choir on what is now the latest release from NLCC featuring John P. Kee, The Reunion.