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January 15, 2011|By Aaron Cohen

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About three years ago, actuality singer/composer VaShawn Mitchell fabricated two acute decisions. The aboriginal was to leave his Chicago home and move to Atlanta, to become music abbot at College Living Christian Church. Mitchell additionally chose to put his beginning recording career on authority so he could pay absorption to the 10,000 associates of his new congregation. They had a lot to acquaint him.

"I encountered bodies in foreclosure, accident their job, applying for unemployment, or couldn't get apprentice loans," Mitchell said. "I capital to put calm a activity that would point bodies against the source, which is God, and not their resources."

The consistent "Triumphant" (EMI Gospel) came out in August, and his songs accurate that affinity as his articulation implores, and embodies, optimism: primarily on the disc's appellation clue and such songs as "Conqueror" and "Can't Take My Joy Away." Mitchell sounds appropriately acceptable on his quiet appeal to a college ability on "I Need You." All of which is angry calm aural a anxious narrative.

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For Mitchell, his third disc additionally resulted in added alluvial rewards — his aboriginal two Grammy nominations: best actuality performance, for the song "Nobody Greater," and best abreast R&B actuality album. His acknowledgment to the new acclamation was level-headed — at 34, he mentions accepting formed on his art for added than 20 years — and awe-struck.

"Just to be nominated is acceptable abundant for me," Mitchell said. "To accept the disc accustomed so bound is a prime archetype that aback it's your turn, God will aloof abide to draft your mind."

Mitchell's compassionate of his community, and alike added faith, go aback to his accomplishments about Chicago, area his grandparents aloft him primarily in Harvey. Lonnie Hunter, who was the abbot of music at St. Mark Missionary Baptist Abbey in Harvey, noticed aboriginal on that Mitchell "didn't accept a lot of absolute macho role models" and became a big brother to him while he was singing in a children's choir.

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"From an aboriginal age, VaShawn was consistently a baton type," Hunter said. "Even admitting his bearings was beneath than perfect, you could never acquaint by his presence, his joy."

While Mitchell concedes that as a jailbait accessory Thornton High School, he was tempted to adhere out with his accompany at the skating rink, his religious charge and adherence to music took priority. He additionally paid absorption to actuality legends here, so abundant so that Hunter referred to him as the "adult baby." Those advisers included the backward Albertina Walker.

"I begin it alarming to accumulate from her wisdom, her plight and what she had to abide to abbot this music," Mitchell said. "It was amazing to see how The Caravans would drive beyond the country to sing gospel, had to go in the aback doors, didn't get paid abundant to do what they adulation to do, but it was a account and paved the way for what we do today."

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Then, as now, Mitchell captivated abreast music forth with archetypal gospel, which didn't exclude accepted R&B. But alike if that put him in a "contemporary" Grammy category, his angle links him to actuality architect Thomas A. Dorsey, who had his roots in 1920s dejection and James Cleveland, who drew on body music during the 1960s and '70s. During a conversation, Mitchell will allocution about his account for Brandy Norwood, Usher and John Legend: At times, "Triumphant" echoes their assembly techniques.

"If it's actuality or R&B, it's still a agreeable sound," Mitchell said. "It's about the message, but sometimes the sounds are intertwined."

Mitchell acclimated all of these assets aback he became abbot of music at Chicago's Sweet Holy Spirit Abbey at 20, the youngest being to authority the position at the 1,500-seat institution. The pastor, Bishop Larry Trotter, mentions that forth with the admeasurement of the church, the demands on his adolescent protege included creating characteristic music for four casework every Sunday and authoritative abiding that the altered choirs were accomplished and ready. Another claiming included the church's accessible attitude against altered strains of gospel.

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"In aggravating to accommodated the demands of our audience, we concluded up not accepting a acceptable Baptist abbey sound, alike admitting we could do that," Trotter said. "We had to move into burghal music to ability adolescent bodies with abreast gospel. VaShawn baffled that we had to accept music for bodies 16, 18, 80 and 90 years old. To go from (Dorsey's) 'Precious Lord, Take My Hand' to (The Edwin Hawkins Singers' 1969 hit) 'Oh Happy Day' to VaShawn's own 'Nobody Greater.'"

While Mitchell was administering the music at Sweet Holy Spirit, he was additionally a communications apprentice at Columbia College Chicago (with a accessory in classical music), and autograph his own compositions. He doesn't comedy an apparatus but collaborates with such longtime ally as keyboardists Daniel Witherspoon and Rick Robinson. A faculty of agreeable abridgement is the authentication of his songs, which accent melody and hooks over added bizarre arrangements.

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