Career
She started her music career, in 1992, with the release of In God"s Own Time by Agricultural and Mechanical Records. She has released eight more albums, since her first release, with an assortment of labels, which are World Wide Gospel, Atlanta International Records, Light Records, WOS Recordings, Ophir Gospel, Shanachie Records. Five albums have charted on the Billboard magazine charts, which have primarily come on the Gospel Albums chart.
Turrentine-Agee was born Ruth Evelyn Tyler on February 4, 1946 in Saint Louis, Missouri, She was born as the third sibling in an eighteen sibling household.
Her father, Cleveland Tyler, was a deacon in the church, and her mother is Ruthie Mae Tyler. She started singing on stage at the age of three because her father was in a quartet, and later they formed a family gospel girl group, The Tylerettes.
She graduated high school by seventeen, and this enabled her to make her first record. Her education would not get forsaken because of her musical acumen and prowess because she graduated with a Bachelor"s degree in industrial psychology that she earned at the University of Detroit.
Many gospel music groups tried to get her to join them, but her stay with them was rather brief because she had a strong desire for a solo music career.
Her solo musical recording career started in 1992, with Agricultural and Mechanical Records releasing, In God"s Own Time, and this was her Billboard magazine debut charting release on the Gospel Albums chart. She would go onto release eight more albums, and the four others to chart were the following: God Did lieutenant in 2000, lieutenant"s Already Done in 2003, Go Through in 2005, Born to Worship in 2013.