{"id":1647,"date":"2020-04-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2020-06-12T15:15:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T15:15:28","slug":"troy-sneed-gospel-musician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=1647","title":{"rendered":"Troy Sneed, gospel musician"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Troy Lenard Sneed Jr. an American gospel musician \u2013 died on April 27, 2020 due to Covid-19 complications.\r<\/p>

\r<\/p>

He started his music career on November 7, 1999, with the release of Call Jesus by Malaco Records. His second album, Bless That Wonderful Name, was released by Savoy Records in 2001. \r<\/p>

\r<\/p>

The third album, A State of Worship, was released by his own label imprint Emtro Gospel Records in 2005, which the rest would be released by that label. This was his breakthrough album on the Billboard magazine Gospel Albums chart. His fourth release, In His Presence, was released in 2006, and it charted on the aforementioned chart. \r<\/p>

\r<\/p>

The fifth album from him, In Due Season, was released in 2009, yet this failed to chart. He released the sixth album in 2011, My Heart Says Yes, and this charted on the aforementioned chart. His seventh album, All Is Well, released in 2012, and it too charted on the aforementioned chart.\r<\/p>

\r<\/p>

Sneed was born on December 14, 1967, in Perry, Florida, and played football while in college at Florida A&M University. He had an injury on the field that put an end to his playing days. \r<\/p>

\r<\/p>

He would join the choir at the university, and after graduating he was a teacher at Jax Beach Elementary School in Jacksonville, Florida. Milton Biggham, with Savoy Records, asked him to come lead the Georgia Mass Choir, in Atlanta, Georgia, as an assistant music minister.\r<\/p>

<\/p>

<\/p>\n \n \n

<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Troy Lenard Sneed Jr. an American gospel musician \u2013 died on April 27, 2020 due to Covid-19 complications. He started his music career on November 7, 1999, with the release of Call Jesus by Malaco Records. His second album, Bless That Wonderful Name, was released by Savoy Records in 2001. The third album, A State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[46,7019,15],"tags":[837],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/Troy_Sneed.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2115,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2115","url_meta":{"origin":1647,"position":0},"title":"Giuseppi Logan, jazz musician","date":"April 18, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Giuseppi Logan \u2011 a jazz musician \u2011 died on April 17, 2020 at a nursing facility in Far Rockaway, Queens from COVID-19. Logan taught himself to play piano and drums before switching to reeds at the age of 12. At the age of 15 he began playing with Earl Bostic\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Noteworthy"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3299,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=3299","url_meta":{"origin":1647,"position":1},"title":"Joe Diffie, singer","date":"March 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Joe Logan Diffie \u2011 an American country music singer \u2013 succumbed to Covid-19 on March 29, 2020. \u00a0 After working as a demo singer in the mid 1980s, he signed with Epic Records' Nashville division in 1990. Between then and 2004, Diffie charted 35 singles on the Billboard Hot Country\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Noteworthy"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1498,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=1498","url_meta":{"origin":1647,"position":2},"title":"Dave Greenfield, Keyboardist","date":"May 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"David Paul Greenfield an English keyboardist, singer, and songwriter who was a member of rock band The Stranglers Greenfield died on 3 May 2020, aged 71, from COVID-19. He had been diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection on 26 April 2020, a week before his death, during an extended hospital stay for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Noteworthy"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2555,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2555","url_meta":{"origin":1647,"position":3},"title":"Ceybil Jefferies, vocalist","date":"April 11, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Ceybil Jefferies \u2011 also known by the stage name Sweet Sable \u2011 died from COVID-19 in April 2020. \u00a0 She was an American house and R&B vocalist best known for her work during the 1990s, including the 1996 Dutch house single, \"It's Gonna Be Alright\" with Deep Zone, which hit\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Noteworthy"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10588,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=10588","url_meta":{"origin":1647,"position":4},"title":"Patrick Ellis, radio host","date":"July 17, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Patrick Ellis, a popular Washington DC gospel broadcaster, died on July 16 at a hospital in Annapolis due to Covid-19 complications. He was 77 years old. For five hours each Sunday morning, Patrick Ellis led a personal communion over the Washington airwaves, playing a mix of classic and contemporary gospel\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Noteworthy"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3317,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=3317","url_meta":{"origin":1647,"position":5},"title":"Alan Merrill, vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, actor & model","date":"March 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Alan Merrill \u2011 an American vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, actor and model \u2013 passed away on March 29, 2020 after contracting Covid-19. \u00a0 In the early 1970s, Merrill was the first Westerner to achieve pop star status in Japan. He was the writer of, and lead singer on, the first released\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Noteworthy"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6052,"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/6052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}