De Leon

DeLeon Richards, generally known simply as DeLeon, is a gospel singer who experienced remarkable success as a child star in the 1980s, though her recording career was bumpy and occasionally scandalous thereafter. Born on September 18, 1976, in Chicago, IL, she began her singing career at a young age, making her performance debut at age five at the Chicago Gospel Festival. An international tour in support of the Mighty Clouds of Joy followed. A few years later the young singer made her commercial recording debut with the full-length album DeLeon (1984) on the label Myrrh, a div...