{"id":9954,"date":"2016-07-13T17:04:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T21:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gospelflava.com\/?p=9726"},"modified":"2016-07-13T17:04:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T21:04:25","slug":"the-passing-of-tunesha-crispell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/the-passing-of-tunesha-crispell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Passing of Tunesha Crispell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9727\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.gospelflava.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tunesha-crispell-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"tunesha crispell\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>GOSPELflava joins others around the country mourning the passing of Tunesha Crispell.\u00a0 Crispell is known for her stellar work as lead singer with James Hall and Worship and Praise and her outstanding solo debut <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gospelflava.com\/reviews\/tuneshacrispell.html\" target=\"_blank\">Just As I Am<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Crispell chronicled her cancer journey as seen in the video below.\u00a0 Exhibiting great bravery, Tunesha fought hard in her ongoing battle with cancer and won many times.\u00a0 While deeply saddened by her passing, we are lifting up her son Melvin Crispell III and other family members during this time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_35009\"  width=\"1060\" height=\"596\"  data-origwidth=\"1060\" data-origheight=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/db47JoMq444?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOSPELflava joins others around the country mourning the passing of Tunesha Crispell.\u00a0 Crispell is known for her stellar work as lead singer with James Hall and Worship and Praise and her outstanding solo debut Just As I Am. Crispell chronicled her cancer journey as seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,31],"tags":[1133,2177,3646,2183],"class_list":["post-9954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist-news-and-updates","category-life-status-births-and-obituaries","tag-james-hall-and-worship-and-praise","tag-melvin-crispell","tag-melvin-crispell-jr","tag-tunesha-crispell"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7351,"url":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/the-works-of-melvin-crispell-celebrated\/","url_meta":{"origin":9954,"position":0},"title":"The Works Of Melvin Crispell Celebrated","author":"Stan North","date":"May 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"While remembered for his work with A-list artists such as James Hall, Tye Tribbett and Hezekiah Walker, Melvin Crispell was involved in dozens of independent projects, many of which we have reviewed and listed below: Tunesha Crispell, Just As I Am United Voices in Praise, Abide With Me Cheryl James\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Back in the Day&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Back in the Day","link":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/category\/back-in-the-day\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"We are at WAR","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.gospelflava.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/We-are-at-WAR-300x296.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13549,"url":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/__trashed-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":9954,"position":1},"title":"Melvin Crispell Delivers EP","author":"Gregory Gay","date":"September 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"RCA Inspiration launches the first new collection of music from Melvin Crispell, III \u2013 who won Season 9 of BET\u2019s \u201cSunday Best\u201d this year \u2013 with the release of the EP album Prologue III. 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