Janet Lynn Skinner

Janet Lynn Skinner (born July 5, 1955) is an American gospel musician, and she is the present music minister of Destiny Church in Twinsburg, Ohio. Her first and only album, The Beginning, was released by Onyx Records in 1982. This was followed by a long-awaited sophomore project entitled One Prayer Away, which was released by Word Records in 1986. This was a Billboard magazine breakthrough release upon the Gospel Albums chart.

Early life Skinner was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 5, 1955, to an African-American father, Billie Haille, and a Euro-American mother, Dorothy Skinner, who was a private duty nurse. She never got to know her father because he contracted spinal meningitis, and succumbed to it shortly before she was born. This placed on the Billboard magazine Gospel Albums chart at No. 25.

Discography + List of studio albums, with selected chart positions Title Album details Peak chart positions USGospelOne Prayer Away Released: 1986

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