The Kingdom Choir

Best known for their show stopping performance at the 2018 Royal Wedding, London’s Kingdom Choir was founded in 1994 by award-winning conductor and workshop leader Karen Gibson.

Their show-stopping performance of Stand By Me, seen by a global television audience of over two billion, instantly catapulted the Choir to worldwide fame. The group of individual singers from in and around London draw from various Christian traditions and are dedicated to creating a sound that reflects the community they share through their warm energy and enthusiastic performances.

Since that infamous day the Choir’s infectious joy and spirit, matched only by their raw Gospel spiritual style, has taken them around the world including a debut North American tour in 2019 which took them to 29 cities including New York, Montreal, Toronto, Philadelphia, Las Vegas and Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl.

Prior to that career-changing performance, the largest audience The Kingdom Choir had performed to was just 200 people. In October 2018, the choir released its debut album, Stand by Me, subtitled 15 Songs of Love and Inspiration. It contains 14 cover performances and one original piece called Chases and went straight into the UK Top 20 charts.

The Kingdom Choir’s first headline London show sold-out within a week of going on sale. They performed at the closing ceremony of the Invictus Games 2019 in Sydney, Australia and the choir was selected to perform The Star-Spangled Banner before the first game of the 2019 MLB London Series in June 2019.

Karen Gibson, highly acclaimed choir conductor and workshop leader, is a powerhouse of inspiration and energy. Proclaimed “Britain’s Godmother of Gospel” by The Guardian, Karen’s experience is extensive.

She has been involved with vocal groups and choirs for over 30 years, conducting gospel workshops across the UK and Europe as well as Nigeria, Japan, Zimbabwe, Rwanda and the USA.

She has been instrumental in drawing together and conducting some of the most prestigious large-scale choirs for a variety of gospel and community initiatives. Karen has also run workshops for aspiring gospel conductors in the UK, Poland, Norway and Italy.

Karen’s choirs are regular finalists or winners of choir competitions, including BBC Songs of Praise Gospel Choir of The Year. After 11 years in IT and a further 7 in teaching, the positive impact of gospel music has led to her current vocation. The Kingdom Choir is one her many choirs that have spread the joy of the genre.

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