The Brooklyn, New York-based Pastor Hezekiah Walker was the leader of the Love Fellowship Tabernacle Church Choir, one of the most popular choral groups in contemporary gospel. Debuting in 1990 with Crusade Choir, Walker and his singers quickly became one of the star attractions on the church circuit, earning their greatest success to date when 1994's Live in Atlanta at Morehouse College scored a Grammy award. After a series of subsequent live recordings cut on both sides of the Atlantic, in 1998 they released Hezekiah Walker Presents the LFT Church Choir, recorded at their homebase at Brooklyn's Love Fellowship Tabernacle. Family Affair followed a year later; Love Is Live appeared in early 2001.