![]() As a youngster, he travelled with his father and sang solos at revival services.Īfter dutifully following his parents’ request that he study business at the University of West Alabama, Pastor Mike Jr. never wanted to do anything else but be a pastor and create music. It’s not surprising, considering this legacy of leadership, which also includes his father, Bishop Michael McClure Sr., pastor of Revelation Church Ministry in Ironwood, Alabama, that Pastor Mike Jr. King organize the March on Washington and stood behind him during his “I Have a Dream” speech. Calvin was the first to be arrested at the sit-in. and his brother, Bishop Calvin, led the 1963 lunch counter sit-in at Woolworth’s in Birmingham. Martin Luther King wouldn’t move in Birmingham without calling my grandfather and my great uncle, Abraham Woods,” said Pastor Mike Jr. ![]() His maternal grandfather is Bishop Calvin Woods, retired president of the Birmingham Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. comes from a family with deep roots in the Civil Rights Movement. said, “being able to accomplish all this during a pandemic.”īorn in Tacoma, Washington, in 1983, and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Pastor Mike Jr. “It’s been a surreal journey,” Pastor Mike Jr. It’s a prelude to a full album scheduled to drop in January. He is also the first gospel artist to earn the top Stellar Award, Artist of the Year, two years in a row. 1 (Black Smoke Music Worldwide / Rock City Media Group). or simply PMJ, took home six Stellar Awards at this year’s 37 th annual ceremony, including Album of the Year for I Got It: Singles Ministry Vol. ![]() (article taken from Rock City Media Group Press Release) ![]()
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