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Dottie Rambo (March 2, 1934 – May 11, 2008) was an American gospel singer and songwriter. She was a Grammy and multiple Dove Award-winning artist. Rambo, along with husband Buck and daughter Reba, formed the award-winning southern Gospel group, The Rambos. She penned more than twenty-five hundred songs, including her most notable "He Looked Beyond My Fault and Saw My Need", "We Shall Behold Him", and "I Go To the Rock". In 2000, Rambo was awarded the ASCAP Lifetime Achievement Award. Her music is known for its poetic lyrics and cross genre reaching melodies often dealing with themes such as heaven, Christian sacrifice, hurts, and the born-again Christian experience.〔''I Will Glory In The Cross'', John T. Benson Publishing Co. Inc. 〕 ==Early life== She was born Joyce Reba Luttrell in Madisonville, Kentucky in 1934 to Jerald Vernon "Chick" and Elizabeth Luttrell. According to personal accounts, she grew up in poverty and developed an early affinity for country music. She learned to play guitar while listening at night to the Grand Ole Opry on WSM radio in Nashville. At eight years of age, she started writing songs while sitting on a creek bank near her Morganfield, Kentucky home.〔(Dottie Rambo Bio from myspace.com ) captured 12 April 2007.〕 She had the support of her mother and father, and by age ten she was singing and playing country music cover tunes on a local radio program. At twelve years old, she became a born-again Christian and made a commitment to write and sing Christian music. The decision turned out to be pivotal in more than one way; it did not sit well with her father who gave her an ultimatum – give up Christian music or leave. She left home and went on the road, with her first engagement being at a church in Indianapolis, Indiana. She formed a trio called "The Gospel Echoes" and traveled throughout the midwestern and southern United States.〔Dottie Rambo Official Bio by Barry Drudge dottierambo.net〕 "The Gospel Echoes" would consist of several members over the years including "Pat Green" and "Little Joe Hatfield". In 1950, at age sixteen, she met Buck Rambo at a revival meeting she was holding with evangelist Jimmie Russell. They married shortly thereafter and began traveling and singing together after years of her traveling alone and living with pastors' families. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dottie Rambo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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