Thomas A. Dorsey, American pianist and composer (died 1993)

Thomas A. Dorsey

American blues and gospel musician and composer (1899–1993)

Thomas Andrew Dorsey was an American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music. He penned 3,000 songs, a third of them gospel, including "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" and "Peace in the Valley".…