Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Cynthia started singing at the early age of four. Cynthia studied classical piano at the Chicago Conservatory College of Music for four years and was staff writer for Savoy/Malaco Records from 1989 to 1997.
Cynthia has composed songs that have been recorded for various Chicagoland ministries including the Corinthians Temple Church of God in Christ Choir, Reverend Clay Evans and the Fellowship Baptist Church, Reverend Timothy Wright, First Jurisdiction of Illinois COGIC Mass Choir, Reverend Charles G. Hayes and the Cosmopolitan Church of Prayer Choir, Shun Pace, Donald Vail and the AARC Mass Choir, Georgia Mass Choir and many more.
God has blessed her to win numerous awards for performances on piano, as well as for her God-given talent of song composition and arrangement. In 1994, Cynthia received a nomination for the Stella Award for best song, “Step Back and Let God Do It.”
On July 14, 2007, Cynthia received a Doctorate Degree in Music and the Sacred Arts from Midwest Biblical Institute. Cynthia has been special guest instructor in Stockholm, Sweden for their GOSPELKOR FESTIVALS for several years. Her tasks there included training and teaching seminars concerning traditional and contemporary gospel to choirs from all over Northwestern Europe. She was chosen as U.S. delegate of the religious ceremonies during the World Expo 2000 held in Hanover, Germany, where Bishop Desmond Tutu was the speaker. Cynthia also conducted several workshops in Stuttgart and Frankfurt Germany, Paris France, and Zurich Switzerland. Cynthia has made over 58 trips to Europe over the past few years in the gospel ministry.
Cynthia served as Minister of Music for King of Glory COGIC under the late Bishop Sheppard Little for 11 years, and served faithfully at Evangelistic Crusaders COGIC under the late Pastor George Liggins for 14 years. She currently serves as the R.L. Dorris District Minister of Music in the Northern Illinois Jurisdiction Churches of God in Christ under Jurisdictional Prelate, Bishop Cody V. Marshall.
Cynthia is Music Director for Evangelical Christian School; Labor of Love Performing Arts Academy, and Cantor for Ashburn Lutheran Church and School. Cynthia taught the 2010 and 2011 Summer Transition Program “History and Roots of Gospel Music” at Northeastern Illinois University Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies. Cynthia’s composition, ‘‘He's Our Hope’’ was chosen for recording at the Edwin and Walter Hawkins Music & Arts Love Fellowship Conference 2010. In September 2011, Cynthia was chosen as guest artist to open for Pastor Donnie McClurkin in Chicago, IL.
Cynthia loves being a wife and mother of four lovely girls and grandmother of four, but her highest acclaim is living and loving what she plays and sings about , Jesus Christ, her Lord.
In 2002, Pastor Marvin O. Nunn founded Dayspring Ministries COGIC with Cynthia faithfully by his side. Cynthia founded and developed the Dayspring Chorale; a performance chorale whose musical focus is to lift up and encourage hearts and to win souls to Jesus Christ. Cynthia, along with Pastor Nunn, established “Second To Nunn Music Ministry; a school whose mission is to provide a structured foundation to develop students learning of concepts, training of basic music theory, and instructional practices to build the necessary competencies and skills to become musicians, choir leaders and instructors of music.
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