LaBreeska Hemphill

LaBreeska Hemphill (February 4, 1940 - December 9, 2015) was an American Southern gospel performer. She was a member of The Happy Goodman Family and The Hemphills. With her husband and children, she won eight GMA Dove Awards and three BMI Awards, and she was inducted into the Dollywood Gospel Hall of Fame and the Delta Music Museum Hall of Fame.

Early life Hemphill was born in 1940 in Flat Creek, Alabama. Her father was Walter Erskine Rogers and her mother, Gussie Mae Goodman.

Hemphill died on December 9, 2015, in Nashville, Tennessee, at 75. Her funeral was held in West Monroe, Louisiana.

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