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Yolanda Adams was born in 1961 and she Yolanda Adams is the <a href="/biography/yolanda-adams">oldest</a> in the six children and she graduated in Sterling High school in the Houston in 1979. She grew up with the classic gospel sounds of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cleveland">James Cleveland</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hawkins">Edwin Hawkins Singers</a>, but hers was also a musically eclectic <a href="/biography/yolanda-adams">household</a>. Adams's mother, a pianist who majored in music in college, introduced her daughter to jazz, classical music, and secular R&B. Adams joined a gospel choir, the Southeast Inspirational Choir, shortly after her father's death when she was thirteen years old.

She started a career as a school teacher and as a part-time model in the Houston, Texas. After some time, she gave up teaching to became a full time singer. She got the attention of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Whitfield_(singer)">Thomas Whitfield</a> and Sound of Gospel Records as a lead singer with Houston's Southeast Inspirational Choir affiliated with the Church of God in Christ, under the direction of Carl Preacher, Brenda Waters, and Shirley Joiner. The choir released the single "For My Liberty" in 1982 with Adams as the featured vocalist. In 1986, Adams was featured on the Edwin HawkinsMusic and Arts Seminar Choir released Give Us Peace, with a performance entitled "My Trust Lies in You".  She then signed her first recording contract with Tribute Records and she released her first album called “Just as I am” during the year 1987.

Adams' first significant attention outside the urban contemporary gospel arena came with the release of Mountain High... Valley Low in 1999 on Elektra Records. Several mainstream artists and producers helped in the production of this album. The album went 2x Platinum in 2000 and won Adams a Grammy Award. Notable singles from the album include "Yeah", "Fragile Heart", and "Open My Heart". "Fragile Heart" was dedicated to the memory of Adams' long-time road manager, who died in 1998

In 2000, Adams released a Christmas album, and in 2001 she released a live album (The Experience). The Experience netted Adams a second Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album. Believe, which included the hit "Never Give Up" was released in 2001 and reached gold status according to the RIAA. She would later go on to perform this song at "The Salute to Gospel Music" at the White House during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush">President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush">George W. Bush</a>'s administration. In 2001, Adams also released a compilation CD entitled The Divas of Gospel; it included the legendary Grammy Award <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertina_Walker">winner</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertina_Walker">Albertina Walker</a>, who is considered the "queen of gospel music".

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Unlike some contemporary Christian musicians—black and white—who consciously blurred the line between sacred and secular music and described the religious feeling with romantic terms such as love and commitment, Adams left no doubt in her songs as to the import of her religious message. Even "Gotta Have Love," her most radical piece, alludes directly to Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians: "Now abide in these: faith hope, and charity/ And the greatest of these three has set me free!" Taking an active hand in both songwriting and production, Adams created innovative fusions that added traditional elements to contemporary settings or convincingly attached religious lyrics to secular song forms. Her voice showed the influence of secular singers <a href="/biography/anita-baker">Anita Baker</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Houston">Whitney Houston</a>, and <a href="/biography/nancy-wilson">Nancy Wilson</a>, yet still maintained overtones of the church. "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_music">Gospel</a>," Adams told the Chicago Tribune, "is any song that speaks to the good news of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God">God</a>." 
Adams has diversified her interests beyond touring and recording. In 2007 she inaugurated a morning radio show that is syndicated around the country. Aside from providing a religion-friendly alternative to more risqué morning radio programming, the Yolanda Adams Morning Show gave Adams a platform to promote causes and charities such as the 50 Million Pound Challenge, a health initiative geared toward <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans">African Americans</a>, and the Houston-based Escape Center. She has also worked with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health to bring attention to the health challenges facing black children, including lack of proper vaccinations and juvenile diabetes. Her own charity, the Voice of an Angel Foundation, was founded in 2005, with a mission of establishing mentoring programs for underprivileged youths.

In addition to these ventures and charities, Adams has also pursued her own fashion line for taller women, called Yolanda's Clozet, and is a spokeswoman for the Columbia Card, a debit card marketed to churchgoing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans">African Americans</a>. Perhaps as a result of all these diverse financial dealings, in 2008 the Internal Revenue Service made Adams another person in a long list of gospel figures to be targeted with a tax investigation. Speaking to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawn_Murray">Jawn Murray</a> on the Black Voices Web site, Adams said the investigation was probably the result of "bad accounting on the part of former representation" but was confident that any tax discrepancies would be resolved without much fuss. After all, she told <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawn_Murray">Murray</a>, "You know <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God">God</a> would never let us deal with more than we can bear."

Her personal life has not been as smooth as her music career. She was in an abusive relationship with her husband Troy Mason from 1987 - 1990 which eventually led to the dissolution of their marriage. She again married former NFL athlete Tim Crawfordand they divorced after seven years. Yolanda and Crawford have a daughter Taylor Adams Crawford born in 2001. Taylor is Yolanda's only child

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