Walter Hawkins, a Grammy Award-winning gospel ... “Do Your Best,” in 1972. The next year, Hawkins became a pastor and founded the Love Center Church in Oakland, where he also formed a choir.

Hawkins, who recorded his first hit — “Oh Happy Day” — when he was just 20 years old, died Sunday of ... A Musical Salute to Bishop Walter Hawkins,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the theater.

Walter Hawkins, a Grammy-winning gospel composer and singer whose songs brought a sense of contemporary rhythm to the howling, pleading, God-praising tradition of churchly ecstasy, died on Sunday ...

Walter Hawkins, a Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, composer and pastor from Oakland, died Sunday. He was 61. Hawkins, who was battling pancreatic cancer, passed away at his home in Ripon, Calif.

RIPON, Calif. –-Walter Hawkins, a Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, composer and pastor from Oakland, died Sunday. He was 61. Hawkins, who was battling pancreatic cancer, passed away at his ...

Walter Hawkins died at his home ... with a chapter here in the Central Valley. The Hawkins brothers spent time in Fresno just a few years ago ... partnering with a West Fresno church to teach ...