Career
He started his music career, in 1976, with the release of Gabriel Hardeman Delegation by Savoy Records. His fourth album, To the Chief Musician, released in 2001 by Crystal Rose Records, and this placed at Number. 12 on the Billboard magazine Gospel Albums chart.
Hardeman was born on December 13, 1943 in Atlanta, Georgia, as Hardeman, Junior., whose the son of Reverend Hardeman Senior, who pastored and founded the Hickman Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church in West Philadelphia, and his mother, Daisy.
He graduated from High School at William Penn High School, and he went onto graduate from West Virginia State University with a physical education bachelor"s degree, where he was a football player and a glee club participant. Subsequently in 1990, he went to Lutheran Theological Seminary, where he graduated with a master"s degree in divinity and became a minister in 1995.
He began his music recording career in 1976, with the release of Gabriel Hardeman Delegation by Savoy Records, yet this did not chart. The next album, To the Chief Musician, was released on May 8, 2001, and it placed on the Billboard magazine Gospel Albums at Number.
12. Gabriel alone wrote songs on some Teddy Pendergrass albums, Joy in 1988 and 1991"s Truly Blessed.
