Tina Campbell

With a warm, uplifting take on devotional music, Trecina "Tina" Atkins-Campbell is a gospel singer, reality television star, and best-selling author. After spending over a decade as half of one of the biggest contemporary gospel acts of the 2000s, Mary Mary, with her sister Erica, she went to number one on the Billboard Top Gospel Albums chart with her solo debut, 2015's It's Personal. The follow-up, 2017's It's Still Personal, was also a Top Ten gospel hit. While she continued to perform live, her first new material in seven years, "Pray for Me," arrived in 2024 ahead of her third solo LP, Testify.

The California native was known simply as Tina Atkins when she and her sister launched one of the most commercially successful contemporary gospel projects of the 2000s, Mary Mary. Formed in 1998 with Erica Atkins-Campbell -- the Atkins sisters married unrelated men who both had the last name Campbell -- Mary Mary went on to climb to the top of Billboard's Gospel Albums chart with four consecutive records (2000's Thankful, 2002's Incredible, their 2005 self-titled LP, and 2008's The Sound). Their final album, 2011's Something Big, went to number two, and the latter three also landed in the Top Ten of the Billboard 200. Meanwhile, the duo also released a series of books, including 2003's Transparent, then in 2012, they premiered their own reality television series, simply titled Mary Mary.

In 2015, Tina Campbell followed in her older sister's footsteps and launched a solo career, both as an author with the memoir I Need a Day to Pray and as a singer with the album It's Personal. It topped the Billboard gospel chart and rose to number 90 on the Billboard 200. Led by the single "Too Hard Not To," Campbell returned to the gospel Top Ten in 2017 with her second album, It's Still Personal.

Over the next several years, Campbell continued to perform, and Mary Mary surfaced at the occasional live event, including singing with the Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles during Super Bowl LVI celebrations in 2022. That year, a solo Tina released a live version of "Thank You Lord," and in March of 2024, she returned with her first original material in seven years, "Pray for Me." It was the lead single off Testify, her third solo studio album. ~ David Jeffries & Marcy Donelson, Rovi