Description
SAY AMEN, SOMEBODY is a heart-warming and uplifting film that captures the lives and careers of some of gospel music's most luminous artists, including
Thomas A. Dorsey, Willie Mae Ford Smith and her long-time rival Sallie Martin, The Barrett Sisters, The O'Neal Twins and Zella Jackson Price. This exuberant
portrait of gospel music begins at the 1982 Gospel Music Convention in St. Louis. Interviews with the gospel greats as well as stirring performances and
rare archival footage tell a story of a uniquely American art form that fuses religion and entertainment and has a transcendent power to move an audience.
SAY AMEN, SOMEBODY traces the development of gospel and the real challenges that faced its founders, particularly the women who often left their families
for long stretches while they journeyed in pursuit of their musical calling.
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