Background
Louis Herbert Narcisse was born on April 27, 1921 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Stella Narcisse.
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Louis Herbert Narcisse was born on April 27, 1921 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Stella Narcisse.
He claimed religious leaders of the time such as Father Divine, Daddy Grace and, James F. Jones were his divine predecessors. He was an organizer and spiritual healer in Oakland, California. He was also a gospel minister, vocalist, musician, and composer with whom gospel singer Mahalia Jackson often collaborated.
He was the uncle of renowned African-American gospel singer Bessie Griffin (July 6, 1922 – April 10, 1989).
They died within days of each other in 1989. His father, Jesse, was killed in a shipboard accident before his birth.
The youngest of four siblings, came from a devout Baptist family. At an early age, young knew that he had been touched by the hand of God.
His family found out early on that was something very special, a religious child prodigy that was reserved but loved to pray and sing spiritual music
As a teen, he became a soloist at church services and funerals. At 18 years old, entered into the Christian ministry in the summer of 1939. migrated to California during World World War II when God spoke to him to come to California. He found a job in Hunter"s Point Shipyards in San Francisco, California as an electrical worker earning $85 a week.
He lived at a Hunter"s Point War World II Housing Project.
As his popularity grew, he presided over several churches in Oakland, Sacramento, Houston, and Detroit, and travelled between them. died February 3, 1989 of a heart attack in his Detroit mansion. He was interred at Rolling Hills Memorial Park in Richmond, California.