Dorinda Clark-Cole Biography
Dorinda Clark-Cole is a Grammy Award-winning American gospel singer, songwriter, musician, talk show host, and evangelist. Clark-Cole is best known as a member of the Clark Sisters, a family singing group, and as the daughter of choral director Mattie Moss Clark.
Dorinda Clark-Cole Age
Clark-Cole is 64 years old as of October 2022. She was born Dorinda Grace Clark-Cole on 19 October 1957 in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
Dorinda Clark-Cole Height
Clark-Cole stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches tall.
Dorinda Clark-Cole Parents – Family
Clark-Cole is the daughter of Elbert and Dr. Mattie Moss-Clark. Clark-Cole began singing as a child with her sisters Karen, Twinkie, Jacky, and Denise. The sisters frequently sang songs written and composed by their mother at their father’s church.
Dorinda Clark-Cole Husband
Gregory Cole and Clark-Cole married on December 2, 1978, and they now have two children, Nikkia Cole and Gregory “Jay” Cole Jr. Dr. Cole also has two young children.
Dorinda Clark-Cole Career
Along with her musical career, Clark-Cole has been evangelizing and giving speeches for over 20 years. Clark-Cole offers both domestic and foreign ministry in places including South Africa, England, Japan, Germany, France, and Korea. She created history in South Africa by being the country’s first woman to preach in front of more than 4,000 people. In addition to being a National Evangelist with a license, Assistant State Mother for the Michigan North Central Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, and the Elect Lady of the COGIC’s International Evangelism Department since 2016, Clark-Cole is a pillar of the Church of God in Christ. Bishop Charles E. Blake appointed her to this position in 2016. She is a ministry administrator at the Greater Emmanuel Institutional COGIC and taught at the Clark Conservatory of Music in Detroit.
Academic institutions have also shown an interest in Clark-Cole’s preaching ministry. According to Ashon Crawley, a religious scholar, Clark-sermon, Cole’s “Why Do I Come Back for More,” is examined as producing the worship space as a discontinuous and open sonic space, open to the other voices that both preceded her moment of being overcome with Spirit — such that other women gathered around, held, and hugged her — and extended the preacherly moment by sociality, through opening up and diffusing the very grounds for the concept, for preaching Crawley would go on to offer a reading of Clark-whooping Cole’s in which the fundamental quality of such aesthetic sociality is not that it can be shared, but that everyone must share it for life, for vitality.
Clark-self-titled Cole’s solo debut, Dorinda Clark-Cole, received two Stellar Awards and a Soul Train Lady of Soul Award and was released in June 2002 on Gospo Centric Records/Zomba Label Group. I’m Coming Out, the album’s most popular single, was included. The Rose of Gospel, her second album, was released in August 2005 by the same label. The album debuted in the top five on Billboard’s Gospel charts, was nominated for a Grammy for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album, and won the Stellar Award for Best Female Artist of the Year in 2007 and 2009, among other honors. Asaph Ward produced the live segments on both albums.
Dorinda Clark-Cole Net Worth
Clark-Cole has an estimated net worth of $9 Million.