Janet Lynn Skinner - Ease My Mind (1982) HQ contemporary Gospel/Soul ballad (Cleveland, Ohio)

Janet Lynn Skinner (born July 5, 1955) is an American gospel musician. Her first album, The Beginning, was released by Onyx Records in 1982. This was followed by a long-awaited sophomore project entitled One Prayer Away, which was released by Word Records in 1986. This was a Billboard magazine breakthrough release upon the Gospel Albums chart. Skinner was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to an African-American father, Billie Haille, and a Euro-American mother, Dorothy Skinner, who was a private duty nurse. She never got to know her father because he contracted spinal meningitis, and succumbed to it shortly before she was born. She was reared in the church at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, where the pastor was Jerry Valentine, and she became a member at the age of four years. While in high school, she was a participant in Future Nurses Club at the East Cleveland, Shaw High School. She went to study business at Cleveland State University, and while there she attended church at Cleveland Church of Christ, where she was active in the choir. Skinner now is a minister in the music department of Destiny Church, Twinsburg, Ohio. The track "Ease My Mind" is taken from her first album, The Beginning, dedicated in memory of her aunt Mrs. Annie L. Garrett and to Mr. James (Jimmie) Johnson. Produced by Dale Edwards. Featuring the Twilights of Joy, Marilyn Smith, Clara Parrish, Dorian Latimore and Sandra Brown on background vocals. I believe this is the same Sandra Brown that was part of the Philly soul vocal group The Mellow Moods.