The Rance Allen Group: Latest Release “Closest Friend”

gospel | May 31, 2007 | Comments 2

When you hear contemporary Gospel music today, you are traveling a road paved by one of the most successful Gospel groups in history, The Rance Allen Group; a trio of three brothers whose first concerts was block parties in their native Monroe, Michigan over 30 years ago.

Rance Allen and his brothers, Thomas and Steve, are three of a dozen children from a church-active family that nearly filled the small Goodwill Church of God In Christ (COGIC) the family attended. Both grandparents were pastors and their Mother played piano and guitar.

Like a collection of hit R&B singles, The Rance Allen Group’s music is easy and fun to listen to. It’s soulful Gospel R&B (that’s “rhythm & bible”) but with state-of-the-art sound and modern instrumentation. It gives mature audiences what they’ve been looking for–music reminiscent of the best of the glory days of Stax, Motown and Philadelphia-International. New audiences and young people have found them, too. They like the Group and what they do because they’re turned on to their classic sound that never lets you down. Then they get turned on to the Lord.