The Chicago Mass Choir is an American gospel

Gospel music

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....

 choir from Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

, Illinois

Illinois

Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

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The ensemble was founded in 1988 by James C. Chambers, who was also the founder of the Ecclesiastes Community Choir. Their debut album was issued in 1991; that year they were named Best New Artist at the Gospel Music Excellence Awards. The following year they won the award for Song of the Year for "I Can Go to the Rock". They released several commercially successful albums over the course of the 1990s and 2000s. Percy Gray also is part of the Chicago Mass Choir.

Discography

• Right Now (1991) U.S. Gospel #14
• Call Him Up (1991) U.S. Gospel #15
• He That Believeth (1992) U.S. Gospel #8
• I'm So Grateful (1994) U.S. Gospel #16
• Please Don't Leave Me (1994) U.S. Gospel #8
• Hold On, Don't Give Up (1996) U.S. Gospel #25
• You Love Me (1997) U.S. Gospel #22
• Keep Your Mind on Jesus (1998) U.S. Gospel #26
• Saved, Sealed, Delivered (1999)
• Calling On You (2001) U.S. Gospel #38
• Live in Nashville (2003) U.S. Gospel #34
• Project Praise:Live in Atlanta (2005) U.S. Gospel 327
• Just Having Church (2007) U.S. Gospel #35