Walter Hawkins
Walter Lee Hawkins (May 18, 1949 – July 11, 2010) was an American gospel music singer, and a pastor. He was consecrated to the bishopric in 1992.
Biography
Hawkins was the brother of Edwin Hawkins, Daniel Hawkins (Marcia), Feddie Hawkins Smith, Carol Hawkins Kemp and Lynette Hawkins-Stephens. Bishop Hawkins was married to Tramaine Hawkins, they had two children, a son Walter "Jamie" Hawkins, Jr., who is married to Myiia "Sunny" Davis-Hawkins, and a daughter Trystan Hawkins. Bishop Hawkins also had a granddaughter, Jahve Neru Deana Hawkins, and a grandson, Jamie Daniel Hawkins.
Bishop Hawkins started his career in one of his brother's chorales, "The Northern California State Youth Choir" of the Church of God in Christ. Later, he accompanied his brother Edwin and founded The Edwin Hawkins Singers. This collaborative effort produced the hit song "Oh Happy Day", which became one of the first gospel songs to cross over onto mainstream music charts.
Walter Hawkins left The Edwin Hawkins Singers in the early 1970s to establish the Love Center Church in Oakland, California. He and his Love Center Choir had considerable success with their "Love Alive" series of recordings, which sold well over a million copies from the 1970s through the 1990s. "Love Alive IV", released in 1990, was No. 1 on the Billboard Gospel Album charts, where it stayed for 33 weeks. In all, Walter Hawkins produced and/or collaborated on 116 hit songs which were listed on the Billboard Gospel Music charts.
Walter Hawkins
ALBUMS
- The Best of Love Alive released: 2002
- Love Alive II released: 1978
- Love Alive IV released:
Love Alive II
Released 1978- Come by Here, Good Lord (feat. Barbara Rhodes)
- He's That Kind of Friend (feat. Tramaine Hawkins)
- Never Alone (feat. Francis Pye)
- Until I Found the Lord
- Be Grateful (feat. Lynette Hawkins Stephens)
- I'm Goin Away (feat. Edwin Hawkins)
- God Will Open Doors (feat. Freddie Hawkins)
- Right On (feat. Lynette Hawkins Stephens)
Born: 1949-05-18
Died: 2010-07-11
Love Alive IV
The just shall live, shall Live by faith
Do do do, Do do do, Do
Verse 1:
Looking around me and it don't look so right
Working on these old problems, working with all my might
Struggling day to day, wondering endlessly
I can't seem to find the solution of the root, of this misery
So I hear the word of God which say the just shall live
Chorus
The just shall live, shall live by faith
The just shall live, shall live by faith
Verse 2:
Keep going in circles, and you can't find your way
And the light keeps getting dimmer,
feels just like you're lost in space, yes it does
So you lose your inspiration, I hear you say what's the use
You conclude that you have done all that you know how to do
Who's going to see you through?
You better hear me when I say, the just shall live
Chorus
The just shall live, they'shall live by faith
The just shall live, shall live by faith
What God is able to do, maybe you just, you just cannot see
Just like he took 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread and
fed 5 thousand hungry souls
He'll do the same for you if you hold on
Hold on, you can make it
Hold on, you can take it
Hold on, you can make it
Hold on, you can take it
He's gonna see you through
Take good care of you
Trust him and obey, he'll make a way out of no way
He's gonna see you through
Take good care of you
Trust him and obey, he'll make a way out of no way
The just shall live, their gonna live by faith
Hang on in there, you can make it by his grace
The just shall live, their gonna live by faith
Hang on in there, you can make it by his grace
Hold on, Hold on
Hold on, Hold on
Hold on, Hold on
Hold on, Hold on
Hold on, Hold on
Hold on, Hold on
Hold on, Hold on
Hold on, Hold on
Chorus
The just shall live, shall live by faith