LaShun Pace
LaShun Pace | |
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Birth name | Tarrian LaShun Pace |
Born | September 6, 1961 |
Origin | Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
Died | March 21, 2022 | (aged 60)
Genres | Gospel |
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Instrument | Vocals |
Years active | 1976–2022 |
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Website | singlashun |
Tarrian LaShun Pace[citation needed] (September 6, 1961 - March 21, 2022),[1] sometimes credited as LaShun Pace-Rhodes or Shun Pace-Rhodes, was an American gospel singer–songwriter. Pace was also a Stellar Award winner[citation needed] and evangelist.
Biography
Born to Bishop M.J. Pace and Bettie Ann Pace in Atlanta, Georgia, Pace was raised in a small community called Poole Creek, Pace first emerged during the mid–1970s, performing solo and later alongside her siblings in the group The Anointed Pace Sisters (Duranice, Phyllis, June, Melonda, Dejuaii, Leslie, Latrice, and Lydia).
Pace singing and ministering skills were further honed while she toured with the Rev. Gene Martin and the Action Revival Team, and in 1988 she recorded In the House of the Lord with Dr. Jonathan Greer and the Cathedral of Faith Church of God in Christ Choirs for Savoy Records. The label signed Pace as a solo artist soon after, and in 1990 she issued her debut He Lives, which reached the number two spot on the Billboard gospel charts and featured her signature song "I Know I've Been Changed"; the follow-up, Shekinah Glory, appeared in 1993. Three years later 1996, Pace returned with Wealthy Place; with well known song “Act Like You Know” featuring Karen Clark Sheard, from the legendary Clark Sisters. In addition to successive releases including 1998's Just Because God Said It, she also enjoyed a career as an actress, most notably co-starring as the Angel of Mercy in the 1992 Steve Martin film Leap of Faith.[2]
In 2003, Pace authored an autobiography entitled For My Good But For His Glory in which she discussed a wide range of topics, including the death of her first-born daughter, Xenia who died of a literal heart break [citation needed]. Pace was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame[3] in 2007. She was to be at the official presentation ceremony with numerous other guests to be formally inducted, but fell ill and was unable to attend. In 2009, LaShun was nominated for Urban Performer of the Year in the Visionary Awards. Winners to be announced live during the 2009 Christian Music Hall of Fame Awards Show[4] on November 14, 2009.
On March 21 2022, it was reported that Pace had died the cause of death is still unknown.
Discography
- In the House of the Lord with Dr. Jonathan Greer and the Cathedral of Faith Choir (1988)
- He Lives (1990)
- Shekinah Glory (1993)
- A Wealthy Place (1996)
- Just Because God Said It (1998)
- God is Faithful (2001)
- It's My Time (2005)
- Complete (2007)
- Reborn (2011)
- "By Your Word" (2014)
- "Joy" (2019)
References
External links
- 1961 births
- Living people
- African-American women songwriters
- American gospel singers
- American autobiographers
- Musicians from Atlanta
- American Pentecostals
- Members of the Church of God in Christ
- Women autobiographers
- Songwriters from Georgia (U.S. state)
- American women non-fiction writers
- 20th-century African-American women singers
- 21st-century African-American women singers