On Lifetime tonight, the movie The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel recounts story of the highest-selling female gospel group. Grethe Kemp caught up with celebrated actress Aunjanue Ellis, who plays Mattie Moss Clark, the group’s trailblazing mother
On Lifetime tonight, the movie The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel recounts the story of the highest-selling female gospel group.
Elliott has credited the sisters as being a major influence: “The Clark Sisters have contributed so much to the Missy Elliott sound. “Their harmonies are just unexplainable,” says Blige. “It was important for me to make this film and join forces with my sisters – Latifah and Missy.The film, which juxtaposes the sisters’ personal struggles against the dramatic heights they achieved in the recording studio and on the radio, shows matriarch Mattie Moss Clark as the driving force of their success.
Their impact on black women is their ability to speak to the alienation specific to black women in the US.
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