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Birth name
  
Janet Lynn Skinner

Labels
  
Word

Albums
  
One Prayer Away

Years active
  
1986–present

Record label
  
Occupation(s)
  
Singer, songwriter

Role
  
Musician

Origin
  
Twinsburg, Ohio

Name
  
Janet Skinner


Janet Lynn Skinner Janet Lynn Skinner Safe In The Arms Of God Album 1986 YouTube

Born
  
July 5, 1955 (age 69) Cleveland, Ohio (
1955-07-05
)

Instruments
  
vocals, singer-songwriter

Genres
  
Gospel music, Traditional black gospel, Urban contemporary gospel

Janet Lynn Skinner


Janet Lynn Skinner


Janet Lynn Skinner (born July 5, 1954) is an American gospel musician, and she is the present music minister of Destiny Church located in Twinsburg, Ohio.Her first and only album, "The Beginning", was released by Onyx Records in 1982. This was followed by a long-awaited sophomore project entitled One Prayer Away, which was released by Word Records in 1986. This was a Billboard magazine breakthrough release upon the Gospel Albums chart.

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Janet Lynn Skinner Janet Lynn Skinner No One But God Album 1982 YouTube

Early life

Skinner was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 5, 1955, as Janet Lynn Skinner, to an African-American father, Billie Haille, and a Caucasian mother, Dorothy Skinner, who was a private duty nurse. She never got to know her father because he contracted spinal meningitis, and succumbed to it shortly before she was born. She was reared in the church at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, where the Pastor was Jerry Valentine, and she became a member at the age of four years. While in high school, she was a participant in Future Nurses Club at the East Cleveland, Shaw High School. She went to study business at Cleveland State University, and while there she attended church at Cleveland Church of Christ, where she was active in the choir.

Ministry

Skinner now is a minister in the music department of Destiny Church located in Twinsburg, Ohio.

Music career

Her music recording career was rather brief commencing in 1982, with her album, "The Beginning", released by Onyx Records. Her second project entitled One Prayer Away, was released by Word Records. This placed on the Billboard magazine Gospel Albums chart at No. 25.

References

Janet Lynn Skinner Wikipedia


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