Twila Paris

PARIS, Twila. b. Fort Worth, Texas, 28 December 1958.Twila Paris is a contemporary Christian singer, songwriter, and author. She has released over twenty albums since 1980 and garnered several awards from the contemporary Christian music industry, including the Gospel Music Association (GMA) Female Vocalist of the Year Award three years in a row (1993, 1994, 1995) and induction into the GMA Hall of Fame in May 2015. In over thirty of her single recordings, she attained a number-one status on Christian Gospel charts.    Paris comes from a family of evangelists and musicians, including her great-grandparents, Martin Paris (1880–1965) and Lula Myers Paris (1884–1978), who were street...

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