Biography
Vernon Price
Real name: Vernon Oliver Price
"Sanctified Holiness" Baptist Gospel singer born in Chicago Ill., December 1, 1929. At three years old she began singing at Bishop William M. Roberts’s Fortieth Street Church of God In Christ (COGIC) (later Roberts Temple COGIC) on Chicago’s South Side under the leadership of Minnie Pearl Roberts Thomas. Price along with her sister Loretta Oliver joined Milton Brunson’s Thompson Community Singers in the 1950s and later became members of Lou Della Evans Reid’s Gospel Music According to Chicago Choir. Oliver also sang as a member of the Duncanaires and has performed with Reverend Clay Evans’s Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church Choir and African American Religious Connection Mass Choir, the Jessy Dixon Singers, A. R. Leak's “It's Time Truth Speaks” radio broadcast, the COGIC Inner-State (Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin) Meeting, the O'Neal Twins, Mattie Wrigley, Mattie Moss Clark, Luvonia Whittley, Iris Stevenson McCullough, Judith McAllister, and Albertina Walker.