The Croydon SDA Gospel Choir has enjoyed many years of delivering soul-stirring music on television,radio,recordings, and live performances in a wide variety of venues.

The world has many gospel choirs doing wonderful things, bringing joy into the lives of millions. The Croydon SDA Gospel Choir has not been content to just be another gospel choir: as it sees its mission to reach out to as many people groups as possible, it has distinguished itself by being probably the most diverse gospel choir in the world. Much of its repertoire is written by its director, Ken Burton, who is a public figure in the choral world as a performer, conductor, and performer. This means that repertoire is tailor-made to the choir’s sound and composition.

As well as being diverse and original, the choir has also been known for its ability to be proactive, which has led to its setting up its own independent record label, CGC Music, which has produced its catalogue of CD recordings which have changed lives, and been a source of comfort and blessing to listeners around the world.

In addition to its own productions, the choir had an album release through MCI Records (Music Collection International), produced by Guy Fletcher, songwriter for such luminaries as Elvis Presley and Cliff Richard. This international release had a number of its songs featured on the BBC1 television drama serial ‘Paradise Heights’.

The choir has appeared on a large number of television programmes; one of its significant appearances was on the BBC soap opera ‘EastEnders’; in 2002, the choir was actually part of a storyline (though obviously not named in the script), which concluded with the choir appearing on the Christmas programme, watched by 22 million people, singing its own repertoire.

This resulted in the choir also being featured on the Eastenders web-site. Some of the scenes involving the choir singing in the background have often appeared time and time again in TV award ceremonies. The storyline of the choir and the wedding it sang at did not end in 2002, as the ‘choir’ was brought up again in conversation and was invited to be a surprise at another Eastenders Wedding in 2004.

The Choir was also part of the historical live BBC television opera : Flashmob: The Opera, which was broadcast live from London’s Paddington station. The choir has made regular appearances on BBC’s flagship programme “Songs Of Praise”, and has performed on several occasions for the British monarchy, including two royal gala performances. HRH Prince Charles personally wrote the choir to say he much he enjoyed the choir’s recording.

The choir sees its mission as being completely uncompromising in its expression of its faith.

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