S1 Ep 6: Donna McElroy/From Background to Center Stage

Many first became familiar with Donna McElroy when they saw and heard her on tour with Amy Grant between 1982 and 1992. But her career began before that as a student at Fisk University when she became a part of Nashville community of session singers on hits like Kenny Rogers' "You Decorated My Life," Barbara Mandrell's "If Loving You Is Wrong" and others. In 1990, she was signed to what would become known as Warner Alliance Records, a CCM/gospel division of Warner Brothers Records. She made an album that colored outside of the lines musically and lyrically. Launching a solo career was a challenge and, despite a Grammy and Dove nomination, the album failed to launch Donna into the kind of solo career that had been predicted for her. In this interview, we discuss that experience and much, much more. To read more about Donna's career, don't miss my Substack feature about her: https://godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/her-way-donna-mcelroys-vision-of