Archie Brownlee

With the premature death of Archie Brownlee from pneumonia on February 8, 1960, gospel lost one of its greatest lead singers. A founding member of the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, Brownlee was equally impressive singing sweetly or with his characteristic piercing screams that later developed into the soul music of the mid-'60s. Blind since birth, Brownlee enrolled in the Piney Woods School, ...more