Daryl Coley & The Beloved

A celebrated gospel artist who also made impressive creative detours into jazz and pop, Daryl Coley was born in Berkeley, California on October 30, 1955. After the divorce of his parents when he was five, Coley and his siblings grew up with his mother in Oakland, California. His mother loved music and the Lord, and the sounds of gospel, classical, and jazz filled their home. Inspired by the music that surrounded him, young Coley learned to play piano and woodwinds. When the Edwin Hawkins Singers scored a major pop hit in 1968 with the updated gospel sound of "Oh Happy Day," Co...