Sherman Washington Jr.
DOB Unknown – March 14, 2011
Sherman Washington Jr. was a beloved New Orleans Gospel singer, radio host and promoter. As a member of Zion Harmonizers for the better part of 60 years, Washington was there for the birth of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, playing at its first gathering in 1970. Two years later, he took over the Gospel Tent and turned it into one of the most popular venues at the festival ever since. In the early years of Jazz Fest, the Gospel Tent was the place many white visitors experienced Gospel for the first time. Washington was also the host of the popular Sunday morning Gospel program on New Orleans radio station, WYLD-AM. The show became much more than a jukebox of the latest Gospel hits, but rather a community of sorts with Washington serving as its beloved “mayor.” In ailing health in recent years, Sherman Washington Jr. passed away in his home on March 14, 2011. He was 86.
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