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Rickie Byars Beckwith
Rickie Byars Beckwith is a multi-dimensional artist: singer, composer, performer, arranger, and founding director of the 160-voice multicultural Agape International Choir. She is an intuitive channel of healing music whose compositions give rise to a profound experience that opens the heart, touches the soul, and lifts the spirit. She is acclaimed as a pioneer in alternative spiritual music and has been recognized with an honorary doctorate degree in music from the United Church of Religious Science.
Beckwith's sound crosses all musical boundaries: gospel, rhythm and blues, jazz, and world beat. She grew up in the South and studied music at Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia. She then moved to New York, where she was lead singer for The Pharoah Sanders Ensemble, Roland Hanna, and the New York Jazz Quartet, among other groups.
In 1983, she moved to Los Angeles. She found a spiritual home at the Agape International Spiritual Center, founded by Rev. Michael Beckwith, and soon formed a choir that eventually developed to today's 160-voice Agape International Choir, of which she is music director. She has written lyrics and music, together with her now husband, Rev. Michael Beckwith, which has been performed by the choir worldwide.
Beckwith has two solo CDs, I Found a Deeper Love and In the Land of I AM. |
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