André De Shields
speaker
298 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
André De Shields’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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and put it in the mouth of a little colored girl who sang in her church's choir.
And once you do that, then it becomes universal.
And that is what the Wiz should be remembered for.
The family wasn't very churchy, but they were pious people.
They read their Bibles on a daily basis, and everyone prayed for me.
And I didn't have to wonder why.
I knew that I was the blackest of the black sheep in the family.
And my mother particularly would take me to revival meetings and when the preacher would ask for people to come down to the makeshift pulpit, people who wanted to know Jesus, my mother would always look at me and that was encouragement enough.
And I would go down and I would get on my knees
And I would, in quotes, accept Christ as my Savior.
Not only did it please the preacher, but it pleased my mother.
But it wasn't real?
Oh, of course not.
And I'm not making fun of it.
I'm just saying I was being a good child.
I was pleasing my mother.
But I knew I wanted to sing the devil's music.
I wanted to go rip-roaring through life, not cast caution to the wind, but have a great time being myself.
Ultimately, I was encouraged.
In the beginning...
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