Bio

Minister and Friends started 2002 in Jamaica, Queens, New York with Minister Donald L. Crutch and Sylvia D. Gibson singing praise and worship. Sylvia encouraged Minister to follow his vision to produce the music he feels God is constantly giving him. Minister in return asked Sylvia to sing on the project, he also went to his God brothers Mike Fisher and Deacon Barry Watkins to play on the project, and then He asked Darin Whittington to master the songs and add his talent as second keyboards. Then once the music was complete he needed vocals so Sylvia layed her vocals and then he asked his brother Elder Glenn E. Crutch and wife Lady Sabrina Crutch if he could borrow their voices. That's where the title "Lend me your voice" came from. Minister and Friends was signed to a national distribution deal with Orpheus Music Dist. (OMD) Beau Huggins in 2004 after he heard the project and couldn’t put it down because of the variety of nice tunes and touching words, he had to meet personally with Minister. In 2005 Minister wanted to share some of his music with other friends so he shared with some of his background singers like Veronica Daeh, and Queeni Russell, then he asked Alicemarie Yarborough who has a great spirit and ministry to be a guest on his project. He loved the testimony he read in Love Express about the gospel rap artist Marcus Debnam aka Markee D and asked him to join in and he produced the music for Markee D and titled it 12D (Twelve Disciples) which was intended for a movie that Minister is still working on. You can hear everyone on this new cd titled "The Ministry of Music" where he wanted to travel back to his roots on some songs and just have fun uplifting the Lord. The release date is scheduled for February 21st 2007. Minister loves giving artist a chance on his projects, so everyone can hear the voices from the undiscovered great sounds from the underground arena. Classic C- Note Records & Ms. Lisa will continue to release cd's for Minister until he stops. Minister did say he wanted to produce exactly 100 good cd's then retire. Minister has a great smile and you can always count on a hug from him.