Renee Spearman

California native Renee Spearman is a Billboard-charting gospel singer/songwriter known for her solo material and for her musical partnership with <a href="spotify:artist:2WxulhToFFCsUG9pw7BjlC">Prez</a> (<a href="spotify:artist:2WxulhToFFCsUG9pw7BjlC">Prez Blackmon II</a>). She began her recording career in the late 1990s, often working as a session singer before teaming up with <a href="spotify:artist:2WxulhToFFCsUG9pw7BjlC">Blackmon</a> for a pair of successful albums in the 2000s. Spearman finally stepped out on her own with 2012's Whoa to Wow!, her first solo album. A follow-up, I Love Him, arrived in 2019.

The daughter of a pastor, she sang and was involved in her church's music department from a young age. In 1995, she led the Prosperity Crusade Choir on her recording debut, Change the World, released on the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22GRC%22">GRC</a> label. A second album with the choir, From a Songwriter's Perspective, arrived in 1999 via <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Reality+Entertainment%22">Reality Entertainment</a>. Over the next couple of years, Spearman found work providing backing vocals on albums by the likes of <a href="spotify:artist:2aXiJJHJei5BmCykxI37y0">Gladys Knight</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:47opbYEKDjXnRk9uLscp11">Yolanda Adams</a>.

In 2001, Spearman and <a href="spotify:artist:2WxulhToFFCsUG9pw7BjlC">Blackmon</a> formed their own label, <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22BlackSphere+Entertainment%22">BlackSphere Entertainment</a>. A year later, the duo released Celebrate, an urban contemporary-styled gospel album credited to Renee Spearman and <a href="spotify:artist:2WxulhToFFCsUG9pw7BjlC">Prez</a> featuring Prosperity. It hit the Top 30 of Billboard's gospel albums chart in 2003 and remained on the chart for over 30 weeks. Another collaboration with <a href="spotify:artist:2WxulhToFFCsUG9pw7BjlC">Prez</a>, He Changed Me, arrived on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22JDI+Records%22">JDI Records</a> in 2008 and returned them to the gospel chart, where it reached number 13.

Spearman's next Billboard appearance came with the song "Whoa to Wow!" featuring <a href="spotify:artist:2TBVFlrEz4Bhg182fcaACv">D.J. Rogers</a>, a gospel Top 25 hit in 2012. An album by the same name was released by <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22JDI%22">JDI</a> that October. Two years later, she was a featured vocalist on the <a href="spotify:artist:4tTqlgzFhbRqQo3w7tq1mC">Bobby Jones</a> LP Rejoice with Me! She returned with solo material in early 2017, releasing the single "Good Morning (You Made It)." That song later appeared on her 2019 LP, I Love Him, whose title track became a hit single for Spearman and special guests <a href="spotify:artist:0pXt4sMs2oRnt528LTYgyd">Hezekiah Walker</a> and Dr. Holly Carter. ~ Marcy Donelson, Rovi