Sep 3, 2015
I knew this was going to be a great trip. I did not know it would afford me a chance to scratch off the top item on my bucket list.
But when the iconic gospel singer Bobby Jones met with the band of international journalists I am traveling with on a fellowship from the East-West Center, he mentioned the song “Oh Happy Day” was so popular among his fans in Russia, Italy and Japan that he can’t get offstage there without singing it.
Was I really the only one present who knew the song, or was I just the most brave? I don’t know, but in a flash I was singing backup — badly — to gospel music’s greatest on one of my favorite songs.
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