SHOW-CASE

Born at Milwaukee, 90 miles from Chicago (the city where Gospel music was born). Titus Williams, author, poet, singer, musician, composes with passion a traditional Gospel style filled with new contemporary sounds yet and still never to dishonor Black-American sacred music. Titus was deeply inspired by his father the Reverend O. W. Williams, who was a Nazoréen (Baptist) Preacher in Louisianna (and Mississippi), who finally settled down in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He himself descended from his father the Reverend Joshua Williams and so Titus perpetuates the family line by preaching and singing Spiritual and Gospel songs. His carrere started at the age of six years old in the Unity Missionary Nazoréen (Baptist) Church, where he sung solo and at the age of fourteen years old he was an accomplished singer and musician. In 1975 he toured the USA and Canada with celebrities of the labels Motown, Atlantic and Stax.

The carrere professionnal of Titus is connected with important rencontres :

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Luther Allison, Al Green, Tyrone Davis, Bobby Womack, Wane Bennett, Tom Tom 94, Curtis Mayfield, Ruben Philips, James Brown, The Temptations, The Jacksons, Al Jarro, Esther Philips, Sweet Honey in the Rock,... He has worked with the Esquires, Vic Pitts, the Drifters, John Littleton, Greg Hunter, Champion Jack Dupree, Mickey Baker, Lucky Peterson, Lavelle, Melvin Taylor, Jerome Van Jones, Liz McComb, Edwin Hawkins, the U.S.A. Mass Gospel Choir and many others.

He discovered his African roots through tours as guitarist and bassist for Myriam Makeba and also met stars of the avant garde of American Jazz and Blues with whom he worked on different albums.

Nourished with multi-cultural music experience, he created in Europe the very first Black-American choir: THE USA MASS GOSPEL CHOIR. He recorded a solo album : UNITY MISSION and preformed in big halls like the Palais Des Congres de Paris, evenement médiatic fantastic which united on the same stage the Choir of the Red Army and Titus accompanied by the Gospel Chords Singers Choir. That concert was organised by Amnesty International.

He participated with his choir (THE USA MASS CHOIR), for the Day of Orphans of Ethiopia with Barbara Hendrix and Linda Hopkins. More than 30, 000 people deplaced themselves for the "Festival: Paris Quartier d'Ete" to witness the charisma generous of this grand artist who transports us to the country of cotton fields.

With his choir (THE USA MASS CHOIR) he traveled throughout Europe (France in particular), performing in festivals, Cathedrals, theaters and abbayes with his choir of Black-Americans who were coming form the four corners of the United States. These were all artistes of great talent. Singers, musicians, soloists of shock. Titus intergrates Jazz, R&B, Funk, Soul and Rap. He demontrates also that Gospel is a music at the end of the day still modern.

By Herlestyah Hiram