Twin Cities Community Gospel Choir

The Twin Cities Community Gospel Choir (TCCGC) will be celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2010.

Just four months after its first rehearsal in early 1990, this community-based, multi-cultural choir swept the competition to win first place in the prestigious Amateur Talent Contest at the Minnesota State Fair. Amateur no more, the choir returned to the State Fair a year later to present 13 concerts--and completed its first professional studio recording that same summer. Since then, the choir has thrilled audiences at hundreds of events in venues as varied as the Historic State Theater, the Orpheum, Central Baptist Church in St. Paul, the Ordway Theater, Red Wing Correctional Facility, People Serving People 410 Homeless Shelter, the Governor's Mansion, St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, and the Minneapolis Metrodome.

Twin Cities Community Gospel Choir Director Robert Robinson launched his career at the age of six as lead vocalist with his family, the Robinson Children. Since then, the Twin Cities' "Pavarotti of Gospel" has performed with such greats as Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Jermaine Jackson, Prince, Aretha Franklin, Mattie Moss Clark and the Clark Sisters, the Steele Family, and the Sounds of Blackness, and has toured as a soloist with pianist Lorie Line.