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The First Pres holiday concert "Christmas Joy!" will feature the 140-person First Pres choir, soloists Alvy Powell, Donald Robinson and Jamal Sarikoki, 60-piece symphony orchestra, 17-piece big band, hand bell
A U.S. Army photo of Master Sgt. Alvy Powell Jr. released by Master Sgt. Christopher Branagan.
Master Sgt. Alvy Powell Jr. didn t enlist in the Army to be a soldier in combat he was there to sing.
With the U.S. Army Chorus, Alvy performed for nine American presidents and at some of the country s most-decorated institutions. Alvy, now 65, retired in 2017 with a special distinction: the Army s oldest enlisted soldier.
He first joined the Army Chorus in 1983. But if not for his sister, Yvonne Powell, 71, he may have never pursued his career in the first place. I started singing because of you, he told her during a StoryCorps conversation in Norfolk, Va., last week. The way you sang, the beauty of your voice, it made me stop whatever I was doing.
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