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‘Let’s Have Church’ For almost 70 years, the Jewel Gospel Singers have answered the call × Expand The current incarnation of the Jewel Gospel Singers, Henrietta Doswell Gattison (front) and the New Jewels, (from left) Ann Cunningham, Vanessa Fitzgerald and Ellen Jefferson, joined by organist Gee Crawford (Photo by Monica Escamilla) Henrietta Doswell Gattison has retired from singing three times, but the longtime leader and manager of the Jewel Gospel Singers — aka the New Jewels — is always pulled back in.  “People just keep calling us,” says the 86-year-old gospel matriarch, who was managing a full schedule of church appearances before the pandemic. “They won’t let us stop.” 

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