Jimmy June Bess This is Me

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1. 1. Morning News Online - Florence, Myrtle Beach | Darlington funeral director hoping to land recording contract

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   Published on: 10/1/2005   Last Visited: 10/1/2005

   Sitting on the front porch of Mitchell Josey Funeral Home in Darlington where he is the funeral director, Jimmy June Bess talks about his upcoming trip to the Annual Fall Gospel Classic at Red Bud Holy Church in Rocky Mount, N.C. Wednesday. Sitting on the front porch of Mitchell Josey Funeral Home in Darlington where he is the funeral director, Jimmy June Bess talks about his upcoming trip to the Annual Fall Gospel Classic at Red Bud Holy Church in Rocky Mount, N.C. Wednesday.
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   "This is a great opportunity for our band because all the top gospel groups, promoters and record label representatives will be coming together at one place," Bess said. "It's by invitation only, and it's like a quartet convention. There will be stars there like Shirley Caesar and The Williams Brothers."
   
   Bess is the lead singer in the group that consists of four band members, three background singers and two producers.
   
   He formed the band 15 years ago through church associations.
   
   Bess can almost taste the recording contract with Luther Barnes Song Ministries, a goal he's been after since getting saved at Mount Zion Holiness Church in Darlington in the early 1990s.
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   Bess wrote the lyrics for both.
   
   "You have to have the feeling to write the lyrics," he said.
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   Bess said he played and sang rhythm and blues before he got saved.
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   Bess and his wife, Gertrude, have six children.