Jordon Gospel Records

I was born in the small country town of Rosedale, Mississippi. I had two brothers and two
sisters when my father died at age five. I was always big for my age and had an appetite of a grown
man. My mother, who had always worked, had to work even harder to be able to provide for all of us
now that she was single. She unfortunately did not have the “quality” time to give us children that we
needed for direction, so she tried to push us to get in involved with church. When we moved to
Memphis TN I was a scared 9 year old boy in a big city, I had never seen so many people in my whole
life. It was a new way of living for a boy left alone so much, every time I turned around I had to fight.
On the tough streets of Memphis the so called strong prey on the weak and as time went on I
learned how to adapt to those streets and that life. Still I didn’t like the way people were treated and I
was the underdog. Learning those streets however had positioned me to be able to focus on people and
help them like I still have strong a passion for. In high school I was able to display how my heart really
was and how deep my passion for people ran. I focused on all the misfits and all the kids who were
picked on by bullies. It was here that my hard experiences in the streets of Memphis would come into
play. I formed a union with the “picked on” children of the school, I showed them together we could
stand strong and we formed a resistance against the ones that treated them so badly. Unfortunately we
drew attention to ourselves in a bad way and I was kicked out of school.