Grammy Award winning producer, composer and recording artist Donald Lawrence and his dynamic support ensemble, Co., return to retail shelves with a brilliant new CD entitled, YRM: Your Righteous Mind (Verity Gospel Music Group/ Quiet Water), on TODAY, August 9, 2011. Over the last two decades, the innovative artist has dazzled audiences as the front man for the now retired Tri-City Singers while carrying on a solo career that has produced radio hits such as the #1 smash “Back II Eden” and “Healed.”
On the new masterwork, YRM, Lawrence blends the classicism of traditional gospel music and retro soul grooves with uplifting, messages of self-affirmation and practical exercises of faith. “Spiritual,” a bass heavy old school soul-styled groove is currently #17 on Billboard’s Hot Gospel Songs chart. Among the collection’s highlights are the upbeat mantra “YRM (Your Righteous Mind)” featuring Dorinda Clark Cole, the smooth “We Agree” with Israel Houghton, The “I Am” Factor sermonette by Zimbabwe’s charismatic Bishop Tudor Bismark, siblings Tobbi White Darks and Tommi White’s rousing makeover of Chaka Khan’s 1984 hit “Through The Fire” and a spirited update of Lawrence’s mentor – the late Bishop Walter Hawkins’ 1984 gem “When The Battle Is Over.” The set is a continuum of what he’s been preaching for years. “This project really doesn’t differ from my past ones,” he says. “I want to continue to teach, through song, spiritual principles and laws based on scriptures.”
