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This is track 4 from the album "He Looked Beyond My Faults And Saw My Needs".
Written by James Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson
JAMES LESLIE MOORE (February 1, 1956 -- June 7, 2000) WAS BORN IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN AND BEGAN HIS PROFESSIONAL RECORDING CAREER AT THE AGE OF 18 YEARS OLD IN CHICAGO AS A SUCCESS STORY OF THE Gospel Music Workshop of America FOUNDED BY THE LATE REV. JAMES CLEVELAND, HE ALSO RECORDED FOR A RECORD LABEL IN CHICAGO.

STELLAR GOSPEL MUSIC AWARD, DOVE MUSIC AWARD AND GRAMMY NOMINATION ARE ONLY SOME OF THE ORGANIZATIONS TO LIST THE EXCELLENCE OF REV. MOORE'S TALENT. HIS ALBUMS TOP THE CHARTS OF BILLBOARD MAGAZINE HOLDING THE #1 POSITION IN THE UNITED STATES. HE WAS ALSO INDUCTED INTO THE GOSPEL MUSIC HALL OF FAME. APPEARING ON MANY RECORDINGS WITH MANY DIFFERENT SINGERS, HIS INITIAL STARDOM WAS GAINED WHILE SINGING WITH THE MISSISSIPPI MASS CHOIR. REV. MOORE ALSO APPEARED IN THE STAGEPLAY "WHY GOOD GIRLS LIKE BAD BOYS".

BESIDES HIS NATURALLY AWESOME VOICE, HE WAS ALSO A WONDERFUL MUSICIAN AND SONGWRITER. INSPIRED AND ASSISTED IN HIS LIFE AND CAREER DURING THE EARLY YEARS, MATTIE MOSS CLARK AND ELMA HENDRICKS WERE THE SHINING LIGHTS THAT HELPED HIM SEE HIS WAY. THROUGH THE YEARS MANY OTHERS HELPED HIM ALONG THE WAY, BUT INITIALLY THE LATE BISHOP J.O. PATTERSON AND REV. CHARLES NICKS BELIEVED IN HIS TALENT AND ENCOURAGED HIM TO USE THE GIFTS GOD HAD BLESSED HIM WITH.

In the mid-'90s Moore was diagnosed with colon cancer, and his health began to suffer. Shortly thereafter, he was diagnosed with diabetes, which left him bound to a wheelchair, blind and placed on dialysis.[2] Determined to disallow any disease from hindering him to sing and minister, Moore continued singing, ministering, and recording. Moore's last recording, entitled "Family and Friends, Live in Detroit" was recorded in the summer of 1999 in his hometown of Detroit, with some of his dearest industry friends and gospel notables, such as Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Rudolph Stanfield, and Darius Twyman. The album wasn't released until the spring of 2000, shortly before his untimely demise at the age of 44 in Memphis, Tennessee.

EVEN IN HIS CRITICAL HEALTH STATE WITH A WEAKENING VOICE, HIS FAITHFULNESS AND DEDICATION TO HIS MUSIC MINISTRY KEPT HIM TRYING TO DO THE BEST HE COULD ALL THE WAY UNTIL THE END.