Kelly Price Talks Grandmother Influencing Faith in God, Music
Kelly Price has endured some heartaches over the past few years, but as she is preparing some major moves in her career, she is remembering the faith that was instilled in her by her family matriarch.
Price is a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter who has worked with household names like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and R.Kelly. In the past two years she has dealt with the 2014 death of her sister and a divorce from her husband of 23 years.
Now that she is preparing to release a new album, a show called "Too Fat For Fame," and starring in the play "For Colored Girls," Price is reflecting on the influence her grandmother has had on her faith that has propelled her career.
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"I look at her and her strength has always been amazing. To be born in the time she was born in and pursue a college education," she told Essence magazine. "And everyone in my family who is musical is musical because of her...she was my earliest influence with everything, whether it's my faith in God or music."
Before rising to fame, Price has had to overcome a number of obstacles in life including homelessness and molestation. When previously speaking to The Christian Post, Price said she believed God allowed her to use her past pain as a testimony in her career.
"There are a couple of lessons that I've learned and it took me almost my whole life to understand that although I was a child and I didn't deserve being raped at three years old, somewhere in there God knew that he put enough in me that I could overcome it and use it in my music as a witness tool, a ministry tool (and) a way to help other people who have experienced the same thing," Price told CP. "That's the blessing in it because I'm blessed by knowing that somebody has been helped by it and it helped me to release it as well."
Although Price is a preacher's kid who spent every day in church as a child, she knows that overcoming some of life's greatest struggles has been the true testament of her faith.
"As you know I'm a black girl out of the projects of New York City, raised in a single parent home because my parents divorced very very young...welfare and homeless at four and then again at 16 and just not having the things or the necessary tools that society would say I needed to have in order to be any kind of success in life," Price revealed to CP. "So on paper, my history says that my future was not very promising. But through Grace I have the opportunity to prove that where you start is not where you have to end up."
