Although Cassietta George never achieved the high level of recognition afforded other members of the famous Caravans such as Shirley Caesar and Inez Andrews, the Memphis-born singer-songwriter was, in the words of gospel music authority Bill Carpenter, “beloved by her gospel peers for her sheer vocal technique (a thin voice but dramatic performance style punctuated with warm pauses and pointed vocal leaps that never failed to garner rhapsodic ovations in concerts).”

Born on January 25, 1929, Cassietta Baker George began singing in her father’s church at age four. She formed an all-female a cappella quartet called Songbirds of the South during the early 1950s and briefly sang with W. Herbert Brewster in his Brewster Ensemble before moving to Chicago and joining the Caravans in 1954. She left the group after less than two years but rejoined in 1960 and stayed for five more years.

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