Al Green

Reverend Al Green (b. April 13, 1946) is an American gospel and soul music singer who enjoyed great popularity in the early and mid 1970s.

Green was born in Forrest City, Arkansas. The son of a sharecropper, he started out at age nine

Reverend Al Green (b. April 13, 1946) is an American gospel and soul music singer who enjoyed great popularity in the early and mid 1970s.

Green was born in Forrest City, Arkansas. The son of a sharecropper, he started out at age nine in a Forrest City quartet called the Greene Brothers; he dropped the final "e" from his last name years later as a solo artist. They toured extensively in the mid-1950s in the South until the Greenes moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, when they began to tour around Michigan. He was kicked out of the group by his father because he was caught listening to Jackie Wilson.