Reverend Timothy Wright Dies

WNYC News | Jul 12, 2010

The Brooklyn pastor, and Grammy-nominated gospel singer and composer, the Reverend Timothy Wright, has died, eight months after being critically injured in a car accident that killed his wife, and grandson, and put him on a respirator. He was 61. Wright, the pastor at the Grace Tabernacle Church of God in Christ in Crown Heights, released more than a dozen gospel records, including this hit, "You Must Come In at the Door." He was nominated for a Grammy twice, in 1994 and 1999. Reverend Timothy Wright, dead at the age of 61.

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