Dedicated Men Of Zion (Band)
Biography:
The Dedicated Men Of Zion is a sacred sould gospel group from Greenville, North Carolina. Though rooted in the harmony-rich tradition of Black gospel, their dynamic style weds that legacy to electric blues, R&B, soul, and funk in a sound that evokes the four AM juncture where Saturday night bleeds into Sunday morning.
Harmony is serious business where the Dedicated Men of Zion come from. For their eldest member Anthony “Amp” Daniels, it was so serious that every day his mother would call her children inside, turn off the television, and make them sing in harmony, talk in harmony, do everything in harmony. Singing well together was a virtue that she and her sisters had learned from their own father, and Anthony gave it to his children in return. Older folks in the Black communities of rural North Carolina relied on that singing for everything in a time when both respect and money were especially scarce.
The Dedicated Men of Zion came up out of this singing land of eastern North Carolina, around the city of Greenville and its small neighboring town of Farmville. Each trained in the church and the home, the group’s four vocalists share the bond of that upbringing and another more literal bond of kinship. They are all family now through blood or marriage.
Harmony is serious business where the Dedicated Men of Zion come from. For their eldest member Anthony “Amp” Daniels, it was so serious that every day his mother would call her children inside, turn off the television, and make them sing in harmony, talk in harmony, do everything in harmony. Singing well together was a virtue that she and her sisters had learned from their own father, and Anthony gave it to his children in return. Older folks in the Black communities of rural North Carolina relied on that singing for everything in a time when both respect and money were especially scarce.
The Dedicated Men of Zion came up out of this singing land of eastern North Carolina, around the city of Greenville and its small neighboring town of Farmville. Each trained in the church and the home, the group’s four vocalists share the bond of that upbringing and another more literal bond of kinship. They are all family now through blood or marriage.
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