Hezekiah Walker & The Love Fellowship Crusade Choir

“‘Let’s Dance,’ is a statement that nothing less than total commitment to the Lord will do,” says Hez. “It is an explanation of who He is and it is a pure up-to-the-minute celebration and praise jam to Him that young people can latch onto in a heartbeat.”

Now-classic songs by Hez & LFCC including “Clean Inside,” and “Jesus Is The Light” have become anthems for the young Gospel church and Hez has become a teacher and mentor to a whole movement. With a coveted Grammy Award, as well as Stellar, Vision, and Gospel Music Workshop of America (GMWA) awards, plus numerous Dove and Soul Train award nominations to their credit; Hezekiah & the Love Fellowship have raised their presence even higher in recent years with a long list of mainstream major-media appearances.

Numerous bookings on The Today Show and a profile on the ABC Evening News with Peter Jennings have accompanied the choir’s appearance on the 1996 Grammy Award show backing Whitney Houston, CeCe Winans, and Shirley Caesar. Among their memorable performances, include backing up rap impresario, Sean “Puffy” Combs during a stirring performance of “I’ll Be Missing You,” on the 1998 MTV Music Awards. They were also featured on the cut “The Lord Is My Shepherd,” with Cissy Houston on the hit film soundtrack to The Preacher’s Wife.

Hezekiah himself was raised in the church and in a home where the sounds of sweet Gospel music filled the air and church attendance was assumed. In a world where life seemed harsh and unfair, Hezekiah’s mother shepherded her boy out of harm’s way and into church where he gave his life to Christ at the age of 13.

Since the age of eight, Hezekiah had been singing solos in the church, and began putting together and writing songs for a small gospel ensemble during his mid-teens. When he started the Love Fellowship Crusade Choir in 1985, he envisioned it as nothing more than a weekend outlet for his musical talents. But the Almighty had bigger plans in mind...

Two independent albums by the choir in 1987 and 1990 were soon followed by their move to the majors, where they were quickly catapulted to national prominence. Hezekiah is now pastor of the thriving Love Fellowship Church, still in his native Brooklyn, New York, where he lives with his wife, Monique, and the couple’s children.