Rance Allen Bio, Wiki, Age, Health, Funeral, Wife, Children, Songs and Net Worth

Rance Allen Biography

Rance Allen was an American Bishop and gospel musician, and leader of the Rance Allen Group who was born in Monroe, Michigan, United States. He was known for his extremely wide vocal range as well as powerful singing voice, Allen became notable as the main lead vocalist and the leader of the influential group.

Allen was the pastor of New Bethel Church Of God In Christ in Toledo, since its July 1985 establishment. Allen was elevated to the office of Bishop in the Church of God in Christ, for the Michigan Northwestern Harvest Jurisdiction in November 2011.

Allen founded the Rance Allen Group in Detroit in the year 1969 joined by his brothers Thomas and Steve. He also performed with acts Mary McLaurine Glover of Cleveland, Ohio.

Allen was born to Thomas and Emma Pearl Allen. He has eleven siblings: six sisters and five brothers. He is married to Ellen Marie Allen (née Groves). The couple married on December 1, 1970. Bishop Rance Allen died on 31 October 2020 at an age of 71 as he was recovering from a medical procedure at Heartland ProMedica (in Sylvania).

Quick Biography
Full NamesRance Allen
Popular AsBishop Rance Allen
GenderMale
Occupation / ProfessionBishop and gospel musician, and leader of the Rance Allen Group
NationalityAmerican
Race / EthnicityWhite
ReligionNot Known
Sexual OrientationStraight

Rance Allen Age

Allen died at an age of 71 years old, he was born on 19 November 1948, in Monroe, Michigan. Bishop Rance Allen died on 31 October 2020 and the birth sign was Scorpio.

Age and Birthday
Age:Died at an age of 71 years old
Zodiac Sign:Scorpio
Date of Birth:19 November 1948 and died on 1 October 2020
Place of Birth:Orlando, Florida, USA
Birthday:Monroe, Michigan.

Rance Allen Height

Allen stood at an average height and moderate weight. He appeared to be quite tall in stature if his photos, relative to his surroundings, are anything to go by. However, details regarding his actual height and other body measurements are currently not publicly available. We are keeping tabs and will update this information once it is out.

Rance Allen Weight Loss

Allen was said to have lost weight through diet and daily exercises. Although the exact amount of pounds he lost are not known, he seems to be happy and healthy in his new shape.

Height and Weight
HeightAverage
WeightModerate

Other Body Measurements

Other Body Measurements
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Rance Allen Health

Allen died while recovering from a medical procedure at Heartland ProMedica in Sylvania, OH. He died on October 31, 2020, at an age of 71.

He was reported in 2018 January to have been suffering a heart attack by various media and the internet. According to his personal assistant and staff, those were just rumors. He fell a little ill over the weekend and wasn’t able to travel to the Gospel Music Workshop of America in Orlando.

Rance Allen Education

Details regarding Allen Education is currently not publicly available. We are keeping tabs and will update this information once it is out.

Education
SchoolNot Available
College/ UniversityNot Available
Highest QualificationNot Available

Rance Allen Family

Allen was born to Thomas Allen(father) and Emma Pearl Allen(mother). He has 11 siblings: six sisters and five brothers. Two of his brothers, Steve Allen and Thomas Allen established the Allen Group.

Family Members
Father (Dad)Thomas Allen
MotherEmma Pearl Allen
Brother(s)Five
Sister(s)Six

Rance Allen Wife

Allen was married to Ellen Marie Allen. The couple married on 1 December 1970.  his wife is also an Evangelist. The calling on her life has been an enormous blessing to Bishop Allen as she has helped him take his ministries to a greater level in God. While there are no natural children born to this union they share their love and support to many God-children.

From that point until this day Bishop Allen expresses himself in the words of his favorite scripture, ROMANS 8:28: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”

Allen was truly an anointed man called by God who has a passion for doing the Lord’s “s will. Now into his 6th decade of life, he continues to strive forward and higher wearing his preaching, singing as well as jurisdictional roles. And as the legacy of this living legend continues, it was evident that for Bishop Allen it definitely isn’t over, it’s just beginning

Rance Allen Children, Daughter

Allen shares no children with his wife Ellen, but they both have welcomed approximately 35 Godchildren.

Relationship StatusName
Marital StatusMarried
WifeEllen Marie Allen.
ChildrenNot Available

Rance Allen Salary

There are no details showing his annual or monthly earnings, his salary figures will be updated as soon as they are available.

Rance Allen Net Worth

Allen has an estimated net worth of $1 million dollars as of his death. This includes his Assets, Money, and Income. His primary source of income was his career as a Bishop and gospel musician, and leader of the Rance Allen Group. Through his various sources of income, Allen has been able to accumulate a good fortune but preferred to lead a modest lifestyle.

Salary and Networth
SalaryNot available
Net Worth$1 million dollars
Source of IncomeBishop and gospel musician, and leader of the Rance Allen Group

Rance Allen Funeral

Bishop Rance Allen, the pastor of New Bethel Church in Toledo since the year 1985 and a widely admired titan of contemporary gospel music, died Saturday morning of 31 October 2020 at an age of 71 years old. His death was announced on the Rance Allen Group’s Facebook page.

“While recovering from a medical procedure at Heartland ProMedica (in Sylvania), Bishop Rance Allen passed away around 3 a.m. this morning,” his wife, Ellen Allen, and manager, Toby Jackson, said in a statement.

His younger brother, Steve Allen who is 68 years old as of 20220 said Mr. Allen died unexpectedly while recovering from back surgery he underwent on Tuesday 27 October 2020.

Rance had been doing so well until his setback that family members were told he would be sent home early this week, he said. ”He never fully recovered from that,” he said. Steve Allen and their older brother, Tom Allen who is 74 years old formed the nucleus of the famous Rance Allen Group alongside middle brother Rance Allen as the featured singer.

The group performed together for nearly 50 years, including a 2015 performance at the White House for then-President Barack Obama. Rance Allen was “the glue for the group,” his younger brother said.

They stopped performing only because they could not continue to sing in front of large crowds once the coronavirus pandemic hit. “He was the Muhammad Ali of singing,” Steve Allen said. “You put a microphone in front of him and he’s Superman.”

But Rance Allen was an affable, endearing, and charming superstar, with an in-person shyness that contrasted sharply with what many people saw on the stage or in his video performances, with his fiery vocals and lion-like roar. “He was a very humble, quiet guy who had these amazing talents,” Steve Allen said. “He never flaunted his gifts.”

Rance Allen regularly made time for fans, stopping for countless photographs and autographs throughout his life and career. “He never turned anyone away,” Steve Allen said. “He just had a big heart.” He said his brother was every bit as passionate as a preacher as he was a singer.

Rance Allen actually began preaching at age 5, raised by a grandmother who taught him to read Scripture as soon as he was able to start reading. “It took off from that,” Steve Allen said of his brother.

Chris Byrd was Mr. Allen’s music director at his church from 1985 to 1997 and continued on as the Rance Allen Group’s producer, songwriter, music director, and keyboardist. He said Mr. Allen was a mentor and like a father to him.

“He kind of took me under his wing,” Mr. Byrd, who has made several albums of his own, said. “He was very kind-hearted and approachable. Anyone could talk to him and approach him.

“Just being on stage with him was always exciting,” Mr. Byrd said. “He wouldn’t stop until he got the crowd.” Deborah Murphy, daughter of another Toledo music legend, the late jazz bassist Clifford Murphy, has for nearly 20 years been the choir director at Mr. Allen’s church.

She said she will never forget the love he showed her during the church’s 9 a.m. service last Thanksgiving Day, hours after her father had died. He saw her in the pews.“C’mon up here,” he said to her, motioning her to meet him up at the pulpit. He stopped the service to hug her and let the congregation show its love.

“I was heavy in the heart because I had just lost my dad,” Ms. Murphy said. “I got to release that. I’ll never forget that particular moment. I’m going to miss him so dearly.”

Ms. Murphy called Mr. Allen “the kindest, sweetest, most down-to-earth person I’ve ever met.” “It seems funny to say this, but to me, he was kind of a shy person,” she said. “Once he gets on stage to sing or once he begins to preach, it’s like two different people. He explodes on stage.”

Mr. Allen sang at Clifford Murphy’s funeral in 2019 and the funeral of Mr. Murphy’s wife, Lillian Adams, in 2005, according to Mr. Murphy’s grandson, Shaim Hampton, senior pastor at Body of Christ Fellowship on Bancroft Street.

“He challenged me as a musician to broaden my musical talent,” said the Rev. Hampton, who sings and plays guitar. “Of course I had my grandfather’s influence. But there were people like [Rance Allen]. To me, he was a superstar. His voice was just unmatched.”

Local blues aficionado John Rockwood, who had recorded Mr. Allen on the local Blue Suit label, broke down crying upon hearing news of Mr. Allen’s death. He said Mr. Allen’s early records on the legendary Stax Records label out of Memphis are unmatched.

“I used to go to his church, which is off Nebraska. He was so uplifting,” Mr. Rockwood said. “It’s so sad. Rance’s music will live on forever.” He said Mr. Allen’s gospel legacy is akin to the jazz legacy left by former Toledoan Jon Hendricks.

“In his church, you couldn’t sit down when he got going. He’ll find it [religion] in you,” Mr. Rockwood said. “He was a treasure in Toledo, a star. There are no replacements for people like that.” Local blues legend Ramona Collins, a former president of the Toledo Jazz Society, said she became aware of Mr. Allen in 1975.

“People loved Rance Allen. From the moment he hit the stage, you could tell you were in for something. I can’t tell you how many people are mourning his loss,” Ms. Collins said. “He was a pro. He was an entertainer, too. Other local musicians like Aayan Naim of The Good, The Bad & The Blues said Mr. Allen greatly influenced their careers.

“He was a true man of honor in every sense of the word,” Mr. Naim said, counting Mr. Allen as a friend for the past 25 years whom he accompanied on many speaking and singing engagements.

One jazz singer, Kim Lynch Bueher, said the featured act of a jazz festival at International Park several years ago, national recording artist George Benson, walked from his downtown hotel and across the Martin Luther King, Jr., Bridge to see Mr. Allen perform.

She said Mr. Benson paid admission like all other attendees and sat unnoticed on the grass. Then-Mayor Jack Ford saw Mr. Benson there and watched the rest of Mr. Allen’s show with him. After that, Mr. Benson went back to his hotel to prepare for his evening performance to close out the festival.

In 2011, he was consecrated a bishop in the Church of God In Christ and was a prelate of the denomination’s Michigan Northwest Harvest Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction. “Bishop Allen’s unique vocal ministry was an indispensable sound within the Church of God In Christ and Christendom,” Bishop Robert G. Rudolph, Jr., the denomination’s adjutant general, said in a statement. “His gift transcended the boundaries of musical genre as he remained a sought after personality called to perform on global venues.”

The news of Bishop Allen’s death brought a social media outpouring from fans and followers, including gospel singer CeCe Winans and disco-era hit-maker Gloria Gaynor.

He and the group recorded most recently for Tyscot Records. The Rev. Prentiss Anderson, an associate minister at New Bethel church, said: “He was the father of contemporary gospel, he and the Rance Allen Group.

“It was something new, and not traditional,” said the Rev. Anderson, who recorded for Motown in the 1960s. “In the church, a lot of the church people condemned it, but the world liked it. It caught on with the younger people.”

With the Rance Allen Group, Bishop Allen contributed vocals, guitar, and keyboards. He also sang with other gospel names, including Ms. Winans and Kirk Franklin and — at the White House — Aretha Franklin. He sang on an album that featured Bob Dylan’s gospel songs, and in 2018 performed on Snoop Dogg’s gospel album.

In 2009 the Black Academy of Arts and Letters named him one of the Great Men of Gospel. In 2005, he received a Trailblazer of Gospel Music Award from BMI, the music publishing company. The Rance Allen Group were Stellar Award winners, received multiple Grammy nominations, and were 1998 inductees to the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.

Born Nov. 19, 1948, as one of Thomas and Emma Pearl’s 12 children, young Rance by age 9 was a traveling preacher in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana. In 1978 he was ordained as an elder of the Church of God in Christ and began 6-1/2 years as associate pastor of that denomination’s Holiness Temple in Monroe. In 1985, the late Bishop Gilbert Patterson founded the New Bethel Church in Toledo and made Bishop Allen its pastor, where he remained until his death.

“He was a great man of God,” said the Rev. Cedric Brock, pastor of Mount Nebo Baptist Church, who for several years led New Year’s Eve Watch Night services with Bishop Allen. “He was able to get along with the rich man on the mountain and the poor child in the valley and made everybody feel comfortable.”

He’d been a board member of the Neighborhood Improvement Foundation of Toledo Inc., a community organization dedicated to enhancing the inner city. Survivors include his wife, the former Ellen Marie Groves, whom he married on 1 December 1970, and brothers Thomas and Steve Allen.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the family held a private memorial service, according to Bishop Rudolph’s statement. A jurisdictional memorial service was scheduled after restrictions on public gatherings are lifted. 

Rance Allen Church

Allen has been a pastor of New Bethel Church Of God In Christ in Toledo, since its July 1985 establishment. In November 2011, Allen was elevated to the office of Bishop in the Church of God in Christ, for the Michigan Northwestern Harvest Jurisdiction.

Rance Allen  Music and Singer

Allen and Phil Driscoll both had careers as musicians in the contemporary Christian music genre. Allen was a member of the famous Religious Leader list. American religious leader and musician who founded the contemporary gospel band, the Rance Allen Group. His dance group released an album called Miracle Worker in 2000.

The Rance Allen Group Miracle Worker and I Belong To You

The Rance Allen Group is a well-known gospel music group formed in Toledo, Ohio, and based in Monroe, Michigan. Its genre of music majors in rock and soul into traditional gospel music prefigures the crossover success of such artists like Amy Grant, Andrae Crouch, and The Winans.

Allen a vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and songwriter was the founder of The Allen Group together with his brothers Tom (drums), Steve Allen (bass guitar), and another brother, Esau (percussionist), joined the group on an intermittent basis. It happened that during an appearance at a gospel talent contest in Detroit, Michigan, they came to the attention of one of the judges. He was recorded promoter Dave Clark, who worked for Stax Records.

The Group was the first to be signed to the Stax imprint Gospel Truth, and they recorded for the Stax organization throughout the 1970s. They appeared in the 1972, documentary filmWattstax. Due to this appearance, the group was named “Best Religious Group” by the National Association of Television and Radio Announcers (NATRA).

David Porter co-produced the group’s 1995 album A Soulful Experience, for which he wrote an autobiographical song, “Just Found Me”. The group had a Top 30 R&B hit in 1978, “I Belong to You.” In spring 2000, The Rance Allen Group released Miracle Worker.

Rance Allen  Awards

-2012 Stellar Awards Quartet of the Year: “The Live Experience II: Celebrating 40 Years of Music and Ministry”
-Traditional Group/Duo of the Year: “The Live Experience II: Celebrating 40 Years of Music and Ministry”

Rance Allen and Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg surprised many by releasing his first Gospel album “The Bible Of Love,” and then by reaching the #1 spot on the Gospel albums chart. His current single “Blessing Me Again” features the legendary Allen, and the video is a lot of fun.

Rance Allen Albums

  • I Give Myself to You 1985
  • Music Book, Vol. III – Magnificent 2019
  • Wattstax: Highlights From The Soundtrack 2004
  • Wattstax: The Living Word 1973
  • Stax Profiles: Allen 2006
  • Up Above My Head 1995
  • Christmas In Soulsville 2007
  • The Best Of The Allen Group 1988
  • Let The Music Get Down In Your Soul 1997

Rance Allen Songs

  • Rance Allen Group (1972)
  • Brothers (1973)
  • Sanctified (1975)
  • Closest Friend (2007)
  • A Soulful Experience (1975)
  • Say My Friend (1976)
  • Straight from the Heart (1978)
  • Smile (1979)
  • I Feel Like Goin’ On (1980)
  • Hear My Voice (1983)
  • I Give Myself to You (1984)
  • The Best of Allen Group (1988) (Stax Records)
  • Phenomenon (1991)
  • Up Above My Head (1995)
  • You Make Me Wanna Dance (1995)
  • Miracle Worker (2000)
  • All the Way (2002)
  • Wattstax (various artists; box set) (2003)
  • The Live Experience (2004)
  • The Live Experience II (2011)
  • Amazing Grace (2012)
  • Celebrate (2014)

Frequently Asked Questions About Rance Allen

Who was Rance Allen?

Rance Allen was a well-known Bishop and gospel musician, and leader of the Allen Group. Allen was the pastor of New Bethel Church Of God In Christ in Toledo, since its July 1985 establishment. Allen was elevated to the office of Bishop in the Church of God in Christ, for the Michigan Northwestern Harvest Jurisdiction in November 2011.

How old was Rance Allen as of his death?

Allen was an American national born on 19 November 1948, in Monroe, Michigan. He died at an age of 71 years old on 31 October 2020.

How tall was Rance Allen?

Allen had an average height, he had not shared his height with the public. His height will be listed once we have it from a credible source.

Was Rance Allen married?

Yes, he was married to Ellen Marie Allen. They got married on 1 December 1970 and together they have no children.

How much was Rance Allen worth?

Allen had an approximated net worth of $1 million as of his death. He had accumulated his wealth from his successful career as a Bishop and gospel musician, and leader of the Rance Allen Group.

How much was fallen making?

Details about Rance’s salary are not yet disclosed. However, information about how much he was earning will be updated as soon as it is available.

Where was Rance Allen living?

Allen had been living in Toledo, Ohio, since 1989 and was the New Bethel Church of God, according to WTVG.

Is Rance dead or alive?

Rance Allen is dead, he died at an age of 71 years old on 31 October 2020.

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