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Biography

  • Years Active

    1984 – present (40 years)

  • Founded In

    Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States

  • Members

    • Chris Poole (1999 – present)
    • Eddie Howard Jr. (1990 – 1994)
    • Fred Hammond (1982 – 1994)
    • Karl Reid (1982 – present)
    • Keith Staten (1982 – 1990)
    • Marcus Cole
    • Marvin Sapp (1990 – 1999)
    • Maxx Frank (1990 – 1999)
    • Michael Brooks (1982 – 1990)
    • Michael Williams (1982 – 1995)
    • Mitchell Jones
    • Montrel Darrett (1994 – 1999)

Commissioned is a popular Gospel music group. The group recorded twelve albums over a period of seventeen years.
Originally from Detroit, Michigan, the six original members were Keith Staten, Fred Hammond, Mitchell Jones, Karl Reid, Michael Brooks, and Michael Williams. In 1991 Staten and Brooks left the group and were replaced by Marvin Sapp, Maxx Frank, and Eddie Howard, Jr.. By 1994 Howard had left the group and Williams left a year later. Hammond also left to pursue a career with the group Radical For Christ. He was replaced by Montrell Darrett. By 2000, Marcus Cole and Chris Poole had taken the place of Sapp and Darrett on the group's last studio album. In 2002 Commissioned released a reunion album which brought back most of the group's former members and featured most of its greatest hits. The group performed live on stage during the 2002 Stellar Awards in Atlanta, Georgia.

(2) An urban Black gospel band with crossover appeal, Commissioned are an extremely evangelistic group in concert who put on such a dramatic show that the altars are routinely packed with repenters following their performances. Members Fred Hammond, Keith Staten, Michael Brooks and Marvin Sapp have all done many successful solo projects as well. They spent most of the '90s pursuing those careers, but found themselves back together in 2001 for a reunion tour and the first of another successful series of albums. ~ Bil Carpenter, Rovi

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