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via TheBelleReport:

The award-winning Mississippi Mass Choir to appear on Discovery Channel’s #1 series “Expedition Unknown.” The episode entitled “Search For The Afterlife – Heaven and Hell,” explores religions and cultures from around the world. It will air on the Discovery Channel on Sunday, October 7, 2018, 9:00PM CT / 10:00PM ET.  Please check your local listing

For thirty years, the awesome talent of the Mississippi Mass Choir has touched gospel fans. Some faces have changed, but the choir’s mission remains the same; “evangelizing the world in song.”

Reaching down to the root of this gospel powerhouse, one finds a very humble beginning. Frank Williams, founder of the group, began singing gospel music in churches as a child, spending his evenings immersed in the sounds and ways of the gospel under the guiding hand of his father, Leon. Frank performed with his siblings, the acclaimed Williams Brothers, and later joined his brother Huey Williams with the legendary Jackson Southernaires.

After many years of touring as an artist, Frank had a vision that the great and soulful voices of Mississippi needed to be captured in a choir. For nine years, this idea grew in his mind until he could contain it no longer. He approached his gospel-writing friend, David Curry, with his ambitions and the rest is history!

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