Career
Review Milton Brunson released his first musical project in 1988, Available to You with Word Records alongside Epic Records. The last album, When You Get High on Jesus, Oh My God, released in 1997 by Hob Records, and this was a posthumous release. The last album to chart was 50 Blessed Years, that charted on the Billboard charts.
All-in-all, he has had ten albums that have charted on the Billboard Gospel Albums chart over the course of his career and some even after his death.
Brunson was born on June 28, 1929, in Chicago, Illinois. His father was a stockyard worker, while his mother was a music and religion teacher.
After he graduated from McKinley High School, he pursued a career in music by getting trained by Thomas A. Dorsey, Mahalia Jackson, and Robert Johnson, to hone his craft in the arts He eventually became an ordained minister in 1964, and founded, pastored, and was the music director at Christ Tabernacle Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois.
His music career started in 1947, at the age of 18 by learning his craft from Thomas A. Dorsey, Mahalia Jackson, and Robert Johnson.
After this mentoring process, he started the Thompson Community Singers (nicknamed, "The Tommies"), that appeared on many episodes of the Jubilee Showcase. They even played Grant Park during the Chicago Gospel Music Festival and at the Apollo Theater and at Madison Square Garden in New York City. This got them enough recognition to play in England, Italy, and many other countries around the globe.
Brunson and the Thompson Community Singers released twenty-two musical projects, and a few of those were released posthumously.
The Thompson Community Singers boasts some notable alumni particularly, Ricky Dillard and Jessy Dixon.
