Sister Janet Mead

To everyone's surprise, Sister Janet Mead hit the number four position on Billboard's Pop Chart April 13, 1974 with the angelic "The Lord's Prayer." The Adelaide, South Australia native, born in 1938, formed a group called the Rock Band when she was 17 to provide music for the weekly mass at the local cathedral. A Sister of Mercy, Sister Janet Mead's goal was to make contemporary Mass music available for everyone to understand and enjoy. In 1973 she started making records for churches and schools, but Festival Records detected a wider appeal for her lovely voice and recorded...