Background
Roy Keith Pringle was born on August 6, 1952, in Detroit, Michigan, who was reared in the Church of God in Christ, where at around sixteen years old the New Bethel Young People"s Choir had him be their organist.
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Career
He started his music career, in 1981, with the release of, True Victory, by Savoy Records, and he would go onto release eight more albums with the labels, Savoy Records, Hopesong Records, Heartwarming Records, Muscle Shoals Records, Malaco Records, Platinum Entertainment. Foreign five of these albums, they would chart on the Billboard Gospel Albums chart. He would graduate from Northwestern High School, and move to Chicago, Illinois for a time, then he would finally relocate to Los Angeles, California.
He got his college education at Los Angeles City College, while attending Reverend James Cleveland"s church the Cornerstone Institutional Baptist Church.
Where he was requested to go with Review Cleveland to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after he got called forward to play the organ during one of the churches collections proceedings.
The trip to Philadelphia was where the song "Number Ways Tired" was recorded, and Pringle was requested by Review Cleveland to sing on the track, which he did quite superbly, making the song a gold selling record.
The first album to chart, I Feel Like Going On, was released by Hopesong Records in 1983, and this placed upon the Billboard magazine Gospel Albums chart at Number.
11. While his next album, Perfect Peace, was released in 1984 by Heartwarming Records, and this placed at Number. 3 on the aforementioned chart.
The subsequent album, All to You, was released in 1987 by Muscle Shoals, and this placed at Number.
23 on the Gospel Albums chart. He released, Number Greater Love, in 1989 by Savoy Records, and this was a chart topper on the aforementioned chart. The last album to chart, Magnify Him, was released by Muscle Shoals alongside Malaco Records in 1991, and this placed at Number.
15 on the Gospel Albums chart.
