Ken Turner, who sang bass for the Blackwood Brothers from 1971 to 1988, was one of the guest artists at the 2014 PGMA (Pacific Gospel Music Association) festival at the Hilton in Eugene, Oregon, from November 6-8, 2014.
You should see his other video showing the wind instruments he can mimic. I was his pupil for a short time and still occasionally do his trombone sound. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HXR7qO7FTvg.html
It's not that he's the lowest singer, it's that he has the absolute clearest notes on his lowest range, no comparison. Bellow those notes nobody can really sing, just do a sound test. No idea why he's isn't more known.
Remember when you were with The Palmetto State Quartet and you would come to my church for homecoming. That's where I grew to love Bass singers. You Ken Turner the best. ❤
thia guy is very impressive and i don't know how he's hitting those notes, but as a pianist I can't ignore the piano player, i wanna know his name and follow him everywere
thank god i got to sing on stage with him with my quartet and he was with the blackwoods they were a hard act to follow we were a fill in group while they took a break and both groups sing the closing song
He is great, I met him in Oklahoma City in either 1979 or 1980, at an all night gospel concert. I rmemeber to this day the tale of the lizard on the train trck.
Hits those low notes like it’s nothing. Some people think Tim Storms did it better but it sounds like he’s just mumbling through it, Ken hits them just fine
My question is this; are there any other recordings of that group besides the rainbow of love recording? They were pretty tight, it's a shame they were so short lived
+Kyle Duffy I actually think Turner brings far more integrity down into the contra octave than JD does. JD certainly tried to push it further with those low, low slides down to an imperceptible rumble, but I think Turner can actually *sing* down there with better clarity and tone than JD ever did. Both are greats of the gospel genre, though.
+ThatKidd Mikhail Zlatopolsky actually sung double low C and could be heard among the choir. In my opinion he had the lowest voice ever, also considering his speaking voice. About Ken Turner and JD I agree with karber. I can add that JD's voice don't please me, maybe because he smoked.
So it is not chest voice Jd hits That with pure chest the same voice you are using when you speak but jd uses subharmonic which is not chest its like we using fry for getting that low so it will be easier for him to hit so that is not chest and he cant go lower with chest too jd is MUCH MORE lower bass than him
+Jonathan Silverman He's been doing that in all live performances since at least the mid 90's when I can first remember seeing him as a kid (he was a friend of my dad's, and would come to our church fairly often).
