Thomas A. Dorsey
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American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas Andrew Dorsey was an American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music. He penned 3,000 songs, a third of them gospel, including "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" and "Peace in the Valley". Recordings of these sold millions of copies in both gospel and secular markets in the 20th century.
