Career
He started his music career, in 1977, with the release, Donald Vails Choraleers, that was released by Savoy Records. He would release sixteen albums with two labels, Savoy Records and Sound of Gospel. Vails released five albums that charted on the Billboard magazine Gospel Albums chart, He Promised a New Life in 1984 with Savoy Records, 1986"s Yesterday, Today and Forever with Sounds of Gospel, 1987"s Until the Rapture again with Sounds of Gospel, In Jesus Christ I Have Everything I Need in 1990 also with Sounds of Gospel, and 1994"s A Sunday Morning Songbook with Savoy Records.
Vails was born on December 25, 1948 in Atlanta, Georgia as Donald Raymond Vails, Junior., whose parents sent him to a nursery school at Gospel Choral Union, and this instilled in him a love of gospel music and the piano.
He was reared in the church in his hometown at Mountain. Zion Baptist Church. He was leading a choir by age twelve, and after high school, as an eighteen-year-old relocated to Detroit, Michigan to pursue a degree in engineering at Detroit Institute of Technology.
While he was doing this, he formed The Choraleers in 1969. Vails relocated to Washington, District of Columbia He established, Salvation Corporation, during his time in District of Columbia, which was an 80-member interdenominational choir.
He began his recording music career in 1977, with the release of Donald Vails Choraleers with Savoy Records.
His sixteen albums made the Billboard magazine Gospel Albums chart, for five of those releases. Those releases are the following. He Promised a New Life in 1984 with Savoy Records at Number.
32, Number.
17 for Yesterday, Today and Forever with Sound of Gospel in 1986, 1987"s Until the Rapture at Number. 11 with Sound of Gospel, In Jesus Christ I Have Everything I Need again with Sound of Gospel in 1990 peaking at Number. 26, and 1994"s A Sunday Morning Songbook at Number.
33 with Savoy Records.
