A singer in this genre called herself Vashti after the Biblical queen, according to a biography by Gayle Wald. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this genre of music that Sister Rosetta Tharpe is primarily associated with, having recorded an album titled for this genre’s Train. Mahalia Jackson was called the Queen of this genre of Christian music.
ANSWER: gospel [accept Black gospel]
[10h] Wald’s biography of Tharpe claims that she had a relationship with a singer with this surname while on tour together. Another singer with this surname made the first recording of “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” with her backing band.
ANSWER: Knight [accept Gladys Knight or Marie Knight]
[10m] Tharpe is considered a progenitor of rock music because of the influence of her guitar playing on people like this musician who sang about a guitar prodigy “deep down in Louisiana” in “Johnny B. Goode.”
ANSWER: Chuck Berry [or Charles Edward Anderson Berry]
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