Gerald Walker, 47, of the 7700 block of South Essex, and Carl Jackson, 40, of the 8300 block of South Seeley, were arrested Thursday night and were each charged with one count of battery.

'One of them grabbed him, and the other one punched him,' Mirabelli said. When he did not exit the stage, they physically went ahead and battered this individual,' police spokesman John Mirabelli said Saturday. 'The two individuals ordered the victim to get off the stage. The victim was identified by sources as Eric Peterson. It started when the 32-year-old victim went on stage, police said. The concert followed a public viewing that day her funeral was Friday. Dorchester, during a musical tribute to Walker, the Grammy award-winning 'Queen of Gospel' who died Oct. The incident happened Thursday night at Apostolic Church of God, 6320 S. A friend of mine got a text about this late last week, but no one new the details surrounding the incident until the Chicago Sun Times released this in depth report. The story goes that Peacock’s chief, Don Robey, nicknamed Andrews the “Song Bird,” and that inspired the name for the subsidiary label on which the Andrewettes recorded.Īndrews may be best known, however, for her 1973 crossover solo hit, “Lord, Don’t Move That Mountain,” written by Doris Akers.Nephew of the Late Albertina Walker Gets Arrested at Homegoing Tribute Concert: Fight Happens on Stage The Chicago Sun Times is reporting that a relative and family friend of Albertina Walker's was arrested after they allegedly roughed up the gospel legend's longtime manager and agent at a tribute concert after she died. She sang with the Caravans until 1962, when she organized her own group, the Andrewettes, which included Elizabeth Dargan. Her first recorded solo with the group was in 1957 with Dorothy Norwood on “Come On Jesus.” She also sang “I’m Not Tired Yet,” “Hold To God’s Unchanging Hands,” and the explosive “Mary, Don’t You Weep.” In gospel performance, Andrews would walk the aisles of churches and auditoriums, calling out for Mary, during the song’s extended vamp.

Walker recruited Andrews to the Caravans in 1957. Cleveland told Albertina Walker about the female singer whose “Soldiers In The Army” tore up the Nashville program. Born Inez McConico in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 14, 1929, Andrews met James Cleveland in Nashville while substituting for Dorothy Love Coates in the Gospel Harmonettes.

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