Donna McAfee is a seasoned and anointed vocalist with a sold out heart to Jesus and a voice that sings HIS praise. Donna’ s music | |
career started in Chicago where she studied with famed vocal coach Lena McLin( Teacher of R. Kelly, Jennifer Hudson, Chaka Khan, | |
Mandy Patinkin and more). She was honored to perform for Mayors Byrne and Washington and was a sought after jingle singer. | |
Donna won the Chicagoland Gospel search |
and recorded the CD Zero with Ian Eskelin on |
Wonderland / Epic records. Donna’ s vocals |
received RAVE reviews in the CCM Magazine. |
Fresh out off of her win, Donna auditioned |
and got a spot on the TV show Star |
Search …. while she did not win, her |
appearances started her journey. She |
recorded and produced the CD SNOSAES |
SGNITEERG, a holiday CD featuring the Holy |
Vessel Singers. This motivated her to make a |
move to Los Angeles where she garnered |
many record contract opportunities. Donna |
went on to record CDs with Polygram and |
Songbird Entertainment and to be a vocalist |
on many films and commercials including the |
song a“ The Prayer” featuring Celine Dion and |
Andrea Boccelli and produced by David |
Foster. She also sang with the Andrae Crouch |
singers on Michael Jackson ' s HISTORY CD. In |
2000 Donna went on tour with Natalie Cole |
and even opened for her during the Japan |
leg of the tours. Donna stayed with Natalie for |
6 years. In between touring Donna produced |
and released her first gospel music CD and |
toured London and the states to promote it. |
It received rave reviews in Billboard |
magazine. In 2006 Donna decided to come off |
of the road and began producing a Sunday Gospel Brunch series at the world renowned‘ BB Kings’ in Universal City. For over a 2 ½ | |
years Donna successfully packed the |
500 seat room with Gospel music |
loving fans and brought a platform to |
new and existing Gospel artists in the |
Los Angeles area. Through creative |
ticketing ideas, innovative promotion |
and use of esteemed business |
relationships with churches and |
artists, Donna was successful in making |
this venture a financial and |
production winner for BB Kings. In fact, |
the General Manager who now owns |
another club is seeking out Donna ' s |
expertise to help him get his new club |
off the ground. After the first year or |
presenting the Sunday Gospel shows, |
Donna decided to tape the shows for |
TV and after a year of shopping the |
show it finally got picked up by SKY |
ANGEL TV which goes into over 15 |
million homes every week. West Coast Praze became a standard in the Los Angeles area as other gospel shows came and went but | |
for the past 10 years the West Coast Praze Gospel |
Music TV show has continued to present known |
and unknown Gospel talent to LA and now to the |
world...... the show has enjoyed even greater |
growth and now airs weekly in over 60 million |
homes in the US via DISH, DIRECT TV, Legacy TV, |
UTV, and SON Broadcasting. The show airs |
internationally in the UK on SKY TV channel 199 |
and in Asia via Isaac TV. West Coast Praze also |
airs on the internet daily to over 200 countries. |
WCP has evolved into a well respected entity and |
Donna ' s expertise is now sought after by |
organizations such as the Stellar Awards( the |
organization that has provided awards for over |
20 years to the Gospel music industry artists). |
Donna is currently on tour with the New |
Dimensions Veterans choir traveling the nation |
and encouraging veterans and bringing them |
thanks. When not on tour with them, she is a frequently called upon vocalist at church conventions, TV shows, events and musicals. | |