Career
She later launched a successful solo career, recording over 16 albums in Los Angeles for Audio Arts Incorporated. Along the way, George wrote over a hundred songs, and was twice nominated for a Grammy in 1969 & 1979, for Best Soul Gospel Performance. Cassietta George was born in 1929 in Memphis Tennessee, the daughter of Reverend Peter Baker and Cassietta.
When she was four, she began singing in her father"s church.
She graduated from McKinley High School in Canton, Ohio, where she lived for a number of years. After she finished school, she returned to Memphis and sang for a while with the Songbirds of the South, one of the many female quartets in Memphis during the 1940s and early 1950s.
She later sang with the Brewster Ensemble. Her most popular song with the Caravans was a spirited arrangement of "Somebody Bigger than You and I".
George began composing while with The Caravans and wrote more than twenty-five songs for them, including "To Whom Shall I Turn?" and "I Believe in Thee." Her style was heavily influenced by that of Clara Ward.
