The Fisk Jubilee Singers, a hallmark of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, are celebrating their 150th anniversary. Earlier in the milestone year, the group earned its first Grammy for best roots gospel album and started a new endowment.
The Fisk Jubilee Singers perform at the Americana Honors & Awards show Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn.
Nashville, Tenn. — The Fisk Jubilee Singers’ first tour wasn’t an immediate success, but their perseverance through financial hardship to find an audience took them around the world and kept their school afloat. “We’re here today celebrating,” Giovanni said. “But when we look at how we carried those songs, and we carry those songs now, and we still lean on the everlasting arms.”
They got little response and barely made enough money to feed themselves, but still managed to donate money to victims of the deadly Chicago fire of 1871. The turning point was when they started singing the songs their ancestors had brought with them to America: spirituals.The songs they performed, such as “Steal Away,” were a musical bond to their ancestors who were brought over from African nations.
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