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Liz McComb
Biography
Gospel music has always been a part of Liz McComb's life. Her mother was the pastor of an Ohio Pentecostal church, and before she was even old enough to attend school, she was singing for her mom's small but enthusiastic congregation. Her first public solo performance there was "Do You Know Him." As she grew up, she made music her special form of communication, since she was more comfortable with that due to a case of shyness. During her youth, she took up the violin but was entranced by the piano after watching an older sister take lessons. Before she became a teenager, she had a desire to form a junior choir and approached her pastor about the possibility. Once she got the go ahead, she also began writing songs for the choir's performances that brought rave reactions from the congregation. In addition to her mother and her sister, McComb also was influenced by her brother, who was a lover of jazz. He recommended that she listen to his record collection, which included titles by such greats as Nat King Cole, Wes Montgomery, and Max Roach.



While McComb was a young woman performing in the Karamu House in Cleveland, a cousin based in Europe wanted a tape of McComb singing, in order to pass it along to an agent that she knew in Switzerland.
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