Rambo broke color barriers

Elvis Pres­ley, John­ny Cash, Dol­ly Par­ton and Vince Gill are just some of the artists who record­ed songs writ­ten by gospel singer and song­writer Dot­tie Ram­bo. Ram­bo, 74, died in a tour bus acci­dent this past Sun­day on her way to a Moth­er’s Day con­cert in Mis­souri. Some of her songs are stan­dards such as “I Go to the Rock.”
She was one of the first South­ern gospel artists to break racial bar­ri­ers by using African-Amer­i­can back­up singers. In 1968 Ram­bo caused a stir in the indus­try when she won a Gram­my for best soul gospel per­for­mance. She was induct­ed into the Nashville Song­writ­ers Hall of Fame last year.
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