I WOULD HAVE TO SAY IT'S MY WONDERFUL MOTHER. AS A YOUNG TEEN (14 YEARS OLD) AND IN TO HER TWENTY'S SHE TRAVELED AND SANG UNDER BRUSH ARBORS AND IN EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY IN AL. AND NORTH FLORIDA . SHE SANG IN A TRIO AND PLAYED A GUITAR .TIMES WERE HARD THEN (SHE'S 86 NOW). WHEN MOM MARRIED MY DAD , MOST ALL TRAVELING STOPPED AND SHE RAISED 2 BOY'S,ONE PASSED AWAY AT AGE 6 BUT SHE NEVER LOST HER FAITH OR OF A NEW DREAM SHE GOT WHEN TEACHING ME THE ROPES. BECAUSE OF HER LEADING AND LAST WISHES I'M BACK AT 62 YEARS OF AGE LAUNCHING A BARN BURNER OF A GROUP.I ALWAY'S TOLD HER IF I WAS GOING TO DO IT AGAIN IT WOULD HAVE TO BE WITH SPECIAL TALENTED PEOPLE.
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Musician Bio Preview: A short while back a group began something which over the next few years will build from a dream into a national phenomenon...
Often imitated; never duplicated, Gold Harbor, a combination of three
unique vocal stylists has taken the previously mundane Southern Gospel
genre and brought it full-force into the 21st century. Their story is
like no other, and they create a sound and impression like no one else!
Armed with inspiring songs of worship and powerful vocals that are
unmatched, this group has broken out of the “box.”
JR Richards is our lead singer and also is our manager a 42 year veteran and has managed several groups and has sang with the original Florida Boys in the 1970's as well as Dale Shellnut and the Echoes,Christian Faith artist The Challengers,Sentinels,Christ church choir and many more. His producing and arranging on the spot in the recording studio is second to none. Through 2 years of planning to bring Gold Harbor into the National scene, JR has thoughtfully and prayerfully assembled Noel Walters and Darlene Chapman to complete this marvelous journey. Our MC Noel Walters took a job with country music legend George Jones, playing bass and opening his show. He next went on to work with Billie Jo Spears for the next 5 years. Billie Jo was so impressed with Noel that while they were recording an album in Dublin, Ireland, Billie Jo asked Noel to sing a duet with her. The song, “Every Time Two Fools Collide,” was chosen to be a single and was a mammoth British success for Billie Jo. Noel says that he has never worked with anyone that, he felt, appreciated his talents more than Billie Jo Spears, other than his Dad of course. Leaving Billie Jo was a difficult thing but work slowed down and he felt a change was needed. After leaving Billie Jo Spears, Noel worked with Joe Stampley, of Moe and Joe fame for 7 years, filling auditoriums and arenas everywhere they worked. Joe decided to disband and once again Noel was faced with a way of feeding his family. While working in the studio one day a call came from the stuttering boy himself, Mel Tillis. He said he had opened a new theater in Branson, MO and would like Noel to play bass and sing in the show. Noel accepted and for the next 15 years he stayed in Branson working with Tillis. Noel credits Mel for teaching him how to truly entertain and interact with an audience. During all the many years of performing with country music artists Noel still feels as though God was using him as a lighthouse and a Godly example to whomever he worked with and came in contact with. Darlene Chapman was born and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Her Father was a Baptist minister and her mother was a godly woman, so, obviously, she grew up in the church. She started singing and playing the piano at age 3 and soon began to travel all over the southeast with her dad - he would preach and she would sing. Her daddy was her hero and she loved him so much! He was the spiritual influence in her life and always encouraged her. She knew at a very early age that God was calling her to a life of service – a life surrendered to His ministry. She was saved and baptized at the age of seven and soon after graduating from high school was married. Two years later she went through a painful divorce and was deeply hurt and devastated. All her life she had lived for the Lord - had served Him and been faithful and simply couldn’t understand why this was happening to her. So, through her hurt, she became angry and blamed God. She stopped going to church and quit singing- she wanted nothing more to do with any of it. Her precious daddy would come over to see her every Saturday to invite her to church, but every time he did, she told him she didn’t want to go and would ask him to stop coming over to talk to her about it. As he would leave, he would turn and look at her with tears in his eyes and say, “Remember, Daddy’s praying for you and if you don’t use your talent for the Lord, He will take it away from you.” She would tremble because she knew what he was saying was true, yet her heart was hard and she was still bitter. She turned a deaf ear to her father’s pleading – but her Heavenly Father knew just how to get her attention. Her daddy got sick and was placed in ICU for two weeks. The doctor gathered the family together and told them they had done all they could do for her father, but he probably wouldn’t make it through the night. She became overwhelmed with this news and couldn’t bear the thought of her daddy leaving this world not knowing that his baby girl wasn’t at peace with God. So, she fell down on her knees right there in the ICU and called out to God and begged for His forgiveness. She asked Him not to take her Daddy like this and promised she would get back in His will. She told Him that she would do whatever was in His will for her to do – all she wanted was enough time to tell her father that she had rededicated her life. The next morning, the doctors came in and said that they simply couldn’t explain the change in her father, but they were going to take him off life support to see how he would do. She knew then that God had done this for her. God - the GREAT physician - touched her father that night just for HER. He knew how to get her attention in the way her Daddy never could. Her father quickly recovered and came home a few weeks later. Several months after he came home from the hospital, she started singing with a gospel group and traveled with them for almost 6 years. Her daddy would come with them on the bus and always sat on the front pew. He was so happy that she was doing what God had called her to do. On November 11, 1997, her father passed away, but he left this world with peace in his heart knowing everything was well between the Lord and her. You see, God didn’t have to give her one minute more with her daddy – but He gave her five wonderful years. God was merciful to her and she is determined to live the rest of her life doing what she promised Him that day in the hospital. She loves her Lord and Savior and can never repay Him, but she can certainly be a vessel to promote His Word through song. Her prayer is that her ministry will be a blessing to all and a hope to those who are discouraged, through both her testimony and her song. Now set back and enjoy the the music, and the energy of Gold Harbor.
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