RIPON, Calif. –- Walter Hawkins, a Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, composer and pastor from Oakland, died Sunday. He was 61.

NEW YORK (AP) – Grammy winner Edwin Hawkins, the gospel star best known for the crossover hit “Oh Happy Day,” has died. Hawkins died early Monday at his home in Pleasanton, Califo… ...

Edwin Hawkins' use of contemporary sounds, a Latin groove, synthesizers and a soul-influenced lead vocal performance created a new model for gospel music.

Edwin Hawkins, a Grammy Award-winning singer who merged gospel and secular sounds in a career highlighted by the accidental crossover hit “Oh Happy Day” in 1969, died on Monday in Pleasanton ...

Edwin Hawkins, the gospel star best known for the crossover hit “Oh Happy Day” and as a major force for contemporary inspirational music, died Monday at age 74.

Walter Hawkins, affectionately known as “Casa Moto”, age 75, born to the late Theodore Sr. and Yniska Hawkins in New Orleans, Louisiana, departed this life on Tuesday, March 9, 2021. Wa… ...

The charge against Edwin Hawkins is in connection to the robbery that occurred on August 11, 2023, at the South State Bank located at 201 E. Greenville St. in Anderson, S.C. Investigators with the ...

Edwin Hawkins, a Grammy Award-winning singer who merged gospel and secular sounds in a career highlighted by the accidental crossover hit “Oh Happy Day” in 1969, died on Monday in Pleasanton ...