Hezekiah Walker

Christian/Gospel

USA

Hezekiah Walker

Christian/Gospel

USA

Biography

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Bishop Hezekiah Walker (born December 24, 1962) is a popular American gospel music artist and pastor of prominent Brooklyn New York Pentecostal megachurch, Love Fellowship Tabernacle. Walker has released several albums on Benson Records and Verity Records as Hezekiah Walker & The Love Fellowship Crusade Choir.

Biography

Walker was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Long Island University, majoring in Sociology. He also attended Hugee Theological Institute, and the New York School of the Bible. Walker became a bishop in the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith in 2008, and transferred to the Pentecostal Churches of Jesus Christ later that year. Walker became the Presiding Prelate of the Pentecostal Churches of Jesus Christ in 2010.In 2001, Hezekiah & The LFT Church Choir were nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Best Gospel Artist, Traditional on the strength of the album Love Is Live! Walker has won Grammy Awards for Best Gospel Album By Choir Or Chorus twice: once for Live in Atlanta at Morehouse College (1994) with The Love Fellowship Crusade Choir, and once for Love Is Live! (2001) with The LFT Church Choir.Separate from The Love Fellowship Crusade Choir, Walker’s LFT Church Choir released two albums entitled Recorded Live At Love Fellowship Tabernacle in 1998 and “Love Is Live” in 2001. LFT Church Choir was more youthful and hip-hop leaning ensemble than its predecessor and its album hit the Top 5 of Billboard’s Gospel Chart and was nominated for a Grammy Award the same year.In 2021 Pastor Frank Santora of Faith Church in New Milford, CT, and Hezekiah Walker joined together to start a church in Times Square, New York City, called Every Tribe Church,