Tramaine Hawkins

Tramaine Hawkins

Tramaine Hawkins is a Grammy-, American-,Dove and Stellar Award winning gospel singer who occasionally releases albums simply as "Still Tramaine".

Hawkins is a coloratura soprano, renowned for her extensive vocal range. Lady Tramaine Hawkins was born October 11th, 1951 in San Francisco, California. She first entered the Gospel scene in 1968, singing with The Edwin Hawkins Singers Choir's "Oh Happy Day".

She became better known as a featured soloist with then-husband Walter Hawkins' in The Love Center Choir. She scored several hits as a solo artist in the '70s, '80s and 90s with "Fall Down," "Changed," "Goin Up Yonder," "Potter's House," along with many others.

Lady Tramaine was featured in MC Hammer's '90s pop-gospel hit "Do Not Pass Me By". She was also asked to perform at the funeral services of Sammy Davis, Jr and Rosa Parks.

Lady Tramaine has been inducted into the Gospel Hall of Fame. While married to Bishop Walter Hawkins, the couple had two children a son, Walter "Jamie" Hawkins, Jr. and a daughter, Trystan Hawkins with one granddaughter, Jahve Hawkins and a daughter-in-law, Myiia "Sunny" Hawkins. Lady Tramaine has one stepson, Demar Richardson with two step grandchildren. Lady Tramaine currently resides in Sacramento, California with her husband, Tommy Richardson, Jr. of fourteen years. Recently receiving the James Cleveland Lifetime Achievement Award and also bring home two Stellar Awards for "Female Vocalist of the Year" and "Traditional Female of the Year" for the new CD "I Never Lost My Praise~LIVE" Please visit Lady Tramaine's website at www.myspace.com/tramainehawkins and become a friend. Here you will find the lastest of what's going on with Lady Tramaine, Pictures, Videos and etc. Visit today...

Discography

Albums

• Tramaine (Light, 1979)

The Rock

• Determined (Light, 1983)
• The Search Is Over (A&M, 1986) ^T
• Freedom (A&M, 1987) ^T
• The Joy That Floods My Soul (Sparrow/Capitol, 1988)
• Live (Sparrow, 1990)
• To A Higher Place (Columbia, 1994)
• Still Tramaine (GospoCentric, 2001) ^T
• I Never Lost My Praise (GospoCentric, 2007)

^T Denotes albums released as TRAMAINE only, as opposed to TRAMAINE HAWKINS.

Compilations

• Treasury (Light, 1986)
• All My Best to You (Sparrow, 1994)
• All My Best to You, Vol. 2 (EMI Gospel, 2001)
• Mega 3 Collection (Light, 2002)
• "Gospel Goes Gold!" (Zomba Records 2006)

Singles

• "Fall Down (Spirit Of Love)" (A&M, 1986)
• "Child Of The King" (A&M, 1986)
• "In The Morning Time" (A&M, 1986)
• "The Rock" (A&M, 1987)
• "Freedom" (A&M, 1987)
• "I Found The Answer" (Columbia, 1995)
• "By His Strength" (GospoCentric, 2001)
• "Excellent Lord" (GospoCentric, 2007)

Trivia

• Tramaine sang at the funeral service of the late Sammy Davis Jr., as well as beloved civil rights activist Rosa Parks.
• Hawkins was somewhat ostracized from her core gospel music audience when her album of dance-oriented contemporary gospel songs yielded the hit "Fall Down". Though the song became one of the earliest crossover gospel hits, the notion of a gospel song being played in dance clubs offended many of her traditional fans at the time.
• Tramaine Hawkins was one of the first gospel artists to sign with Columbia Records when she released To A Higher Place in 1994.
• Gospel trio Trin-i-tee 5:7 recorded a cover of Tramaine Hawkins' signature tune "Highway" which Tramaine also made a cameo appearance on.
• Tramaine Hawkins was featured in MC Hammer's '90s pop-gospel hit "Do Not Pass Me By".
• Tramaine was briefly a member of the '70s soul female singing group Honey Cone that later went on to record the hit song "Want Ads".
• Hawkins' son Jamie briefly had a recording contract with Elektra Records which yielded the promotional single "Lost My Mind", but the album was shelved before release.
• Gospel singer Kelli Williams recorded "Fall Down 2000," a remake of Hawkins' definitive dance hit, produced by avant garde gospel artist Tonéx.

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