Evelyn Turrentine-Agee

Turrentine-Agee was born Ruth Evelyn Tyler on February 4, 1946, in St. Louis, Missouri,[1] She was born as the third sibling in an eighteen sibling household.[1] Her father, Cleveland Tyler, was a minister in the church, and her mother is Ruthie Mae Tyler.[1][2] She started singing on stage at the age of three because her father was in a quartet, and later they formed a family gospel girl group, The Tylerettes.[1] She graduated high school by seventeen, and this enabled her to make her first record.[1] Her education would not get forsaken because of her musical acumen and prowess because she graduated with a bachelor's degree in industrial psychology that she earned at the University of Detroit.[1] Many gospel music groups tried to get her to join them, but her stay with them was rather brief because she had a strong desire for a solo music career.[1]

Her solo musical recording career started in 1992, with A&M Records releasing, In God's Own Time,[3] and this was her Billboard magazine debut charting release on the Gospel Albums chart.[4] She would go on to release eight more albums, and the four others to chart were the following: God Did It in 2000, It's Already Done in 2003, Go Through in 2005, Born to Worship in 2013.[3][4]

While in college, she married Curtis Turrentine,[1] and together they have survived her husband having alcoholism that he was delivered from 1993, while she survived a stroke in 1997.[5] They have 11 children and 40 grandchildren that are living.[6]

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