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Del Delker is an American

United States

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Contralto

Contralto is the deepest female classical singing voice, with the lowest tessitura, falling between tenor and mezzo-soprano. It typically ranges between the F below middle C to the second G above middle C , although at the extremes some voices can reach the E below middle C or the second B above...

sacred music female vocalist who has sung on the Voice of Prophecy

Voice Of Prophecy

The Voice Of Prophecy is a long-running Seventh-day Adventist religious radio broadcast founded in 1929 by H.M.S. Richards, Sr.. Initially aired on a single radio station in Los Angeles it has since grown to numerous stations throughout the United States and Canada and more recently has begun...

radio ministry since 1947.

Delker has recorded over forty albums for Chapel Records

Chapel Records

Chapel Records is a record label in currently in Nampa, Idaho that releases religious music. The label was founded in the late 1940's and still releases several CDS each year. Among the artists who have recorded for Chapel are The King's Heralds, Del Delker, The Heritage Singers, Wintley Phipps,...

since the early 1950s. Among the songs she is best known for are "The Love of God", "Ten Thousand Angels", and "The Night Watch". In addition to her scores of recordings in English, she has also recorded several gospel albums in Spanish and Portuguese, as well as religious music for children.

Delker has toured the world with Voice of Prophecy revivals and performed in many nations, often singing Christian hymns in the native languages.

She is a good friend of composer Hugh Martin

Hugh Martin

Hugh Martin was an American musical theater and film composer, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright. He is best known for his score for the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me In St...

who at one point worked as her piano accompanist and later penned a new version of his Christmas classic Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a song introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis. Frank Sinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics, which has become more common than the original. The song was written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane...

entitled "Have Yourself A Blessed Little Christmas" which Delker recorded in 1999. In 2002, she released her autobiography "Del Delker: Her Story" cowritten by Ken Wade and published by Pacific Press.

Selected discography

Year	Album
c. 1951	Del Delker
c. 1952	Del Delker Sings
c. 1953	The La Sierra University La Sierra University La Sierra University is a Seventh-day Adventist co-educational university accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and the Adventist Accrediting Association... Album
c. 1954	Del Delker and Bob Seamount
c. 1954	Del Delker and the King's Heralds
c. 1955	Del Delker Sings in The Temple Trio
c. 1956	It Took a Miracle
c. 1960	God Understands
c. 1961	Day By Day
c. 1962	Our Prayer
c. 1963	The Love of God
c. 1963	The Lord's Prayer
c. 1964	It Took a Miracle (different album than 1956)
c. 1965	Ten Thousand Angels
c. 1966	What Will it Be to See Jesus
c. 1967	My God is a Real God
c. 1968	Joyful
c. 1969	The Night Watch
c. 1969	Del Delker Sings
c. 1970	He Touched Me
c. 1970	He Touched Me (Spanish-language version of album)
1976	Come on Down
1977	Quiet Time with Del
1979	Reflections
c. 1980	All About Love
c. 1981	Songs for Happy Children
c. 1981	On His Mind
c. 1983	Worship Time: Hymns and Classics
c. 1985	Most Requested Songs
c. 1987	Being Me (Songs for Children)
c. 1990	His Love
c. 1993	Heaven on My Mind
c. 1995	Forever Grateful
c. 1997	40th Anniversary Album
c. 1999	There's No One Quite Like You
2001	Have Yourself A Blessed Christmas

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