Erica Campbell

thumb Erica Monique Campbell (née Atkins; born April 29, 1972) is an American Gospel singer and songwriter. she started her music career in the late 1990s with her younger sister, Tina Campbell, as part of the group Mary Mary. Quotes Right now, I’m literally living out what God promised as a little girl, how He would allow me to sing for the world. And I’m so, so grateful. Even the ups and downs of this music business, Christian business, all of it, it can be crazy. But I remember that I always wanted it and I remember who I’m doing it for. When you’re in a big family, it’s easy to kind of be quiet and shy. I won’t say I felt invisible because I didn’t. But it’s easy to kind of get lost in the shuffle. And so the special things about your personality, you don’t really discover until later in life. I had this gift, but didn’t know it was a gift. You know, it felt like it was a curse because I couldn’t go play with my friends outside. I had to go to choir rehearsal with the adults. But I really, really thank God for those formative years of just wanting to sing. Here’s what I love about my sister Tina: she’s always been bold and fearless. So we didn’t grow up as a singing group. We actually never sang together as little girls. Our family was all in the choir. We went to Evangelistic Church of God in Christ and my whole family was in the choir. So we were in the choir, but never a group. I think I was eighteen or nineteen and she was about sixteen or seventeen. And that was the first time we ever sang together. So she started writing songs. We were still living at home with my mom. She was writing songs. Well, making up songs, and I made up a song, singing the song that I made up and we didn’t have any money to record. So we went to the bathroom–she sang one part, we recorded the other on a tape recorder and played that, and that was our three part harmony. It was just so funny, but so innocent and so wonderful to remember right now. And so when we met my husband, Warren Campbell, and played songs for him, he was like, “You guys should be a group.” We were like, “Oh, okay, maybe. Everywhere we went at that time was amazing. We went to Germany. It was an event called The Comeback of Jesus, and they were literally beating the stage, going, Mary! Mary! Mary! I was crying, going, “Oh my God, you didn’t have to be this good to me. Oh, my gosh. Created on Purpose, For God’s Purpose: Erica Campbell and Crystal Paine External links Category:Women singers from the United States Category:Living people Category:1972 births Category:Women born in the 1970s Category:Women songwriters Category:Gospel singers Category:African Americans