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.

Edwin Hawkins isn't quite sure what he'd be doing today if his Latin-soul arrangement of the 18th century Protestant hymn "Oh Happy Day" hadn't become a fluke international hit in 1969, selling 7 ...

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 ...

(AP) - Walter ... Hawkins studied for his divinity degree at the University of California, Berkeley. While at the university, he recorded his first album titled “Do Your Best” in 1972. The ...

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 ...

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

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 ...