LA CHOIR WINS HOW SWEET THE SOUND BEST CHOIR IN THE NATION TITLE
By Mona Austin The Voices of Destiny Choir (VOD) from Los Angeles, California has won the Verizon "How Sweet the Sound" national choir competition. With electrifying choreography fit for Dancing with the Stars and Glee-like theatrical presentation, the group dominated thirteen other choirs from around the country, performing the a remix of Byron Cage's "The Presence of the Lord" before a sold out audience of 12,000 in Washington D.C.'s Verizon Center on November 13. The show was hosted by CeCe Winans and Donald Lawrence and judged by Karen Clark Sheard, Fred Hammond and Marvin Sapp who all doubled as headliners adding to an evening of mind blowing entertainment that only cost $8. BeBe Winans joined his sister Ce Ce in a performance. The Voices of Destiny left Sapp awe-stricken : "I have four words," he said, "Un-be-lieve-able!" Sapps singular sentiment sums up a show that has taken the 3-year-old choir competition to it...