Carl Bean, minister and AIDS activist who sang ‘I Was Born This Way,’ dies at 77
In a telephone interview, Thornhill stated Archbishop Bean “had a religious expertise within the Motown studio whereas singing that track.” Inside a couple of years, he had left music to enter the ministry. “The track grew to become an anthem of liberation for everybody,” Archbishop Bean wrote in a 2010 memoir, additionally titled “I Was Born This Way.” Wanting again on the recording session, he wrote, “It was Holy Ghost energy, prompting me, pushing me on.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/native/obituaries/carl-bean-dead/2021/09/08/3a16ea1a-10bb-11ec-882f-2dd15a067dc4_story.html | Carl Bean, minister and AIDS activist who sang ‘I Was Born This Means,’ dies at 77
