"Fountain was enrolled at the age of eight into the Alabama Institute for the Negro Deaf and Blind. While singing in the school's choir, Fountain and five friends formed the Happy Land Jubilee Singers ... [and changed] their name to the Blind Boys of Alabama at the turn of the decade. ... Despite being one of the more famed black gospel groups during the Fifties, the Blind Boys of Alabama's popularity waned in the late Sixties and Seventies as secular soul music emerged." They returned to wide popularity in 1983 with their participation in Lee Breuer's famous Off-Broadway production of The Gospel at Colonus.
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