Legacy 5 Pianist Roger Bennett Dies

Legacy 5 pianist Roger Bennett died Saturday as a consequence of troubles encountered via his prolonged fight with leukemia. He was 48.

Legacy Five experienced been set to perform at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church on Sign Mountain on Sunday.

Born March 10, 1959, Bennett grew up in Strawberry, Ark. In November of 1979, he fulfilled his daily life-prolonged desire of remaining a part of professional Southern Gospel songs when he was invited by Glen Payne and George Younce to be part of the legendary Cathedral Quartet.

Even though he would depart the team for two decades (1987-1989) to serve as the president of Journey Data, he was the group’s pianist at the time of the quartet’s retirement in 1999.

Following the retirement of the Cathedrals, Bennett and fellow Cathedrals member Scott Fowler introduced Legacy Five. In 2004, he fulfilled another dream (acquiring his individual successful quartet) when visitors of Singing Information voted Legacy Five as the Preferred Common Male Quartet.

Whilst an exceptional singer, Bennett is finest remembered as pianist – and often a comedian – for the Cathedrals and Legacy Five. He gained the Singing Information Fan Award for Favourite Southern Gospel pianist 14 many years in row (1993-2006).

Songwriting was an additional forte’ of Roger Bennett. Numerous of his tunes appeared on the recordings of the Cathedrals, Legacy 5 and numerous other folks. His producing expertise was not minimal to just music, on the other hand. he was a contributing editor to Singing Information, crafting “Midnight Meditations.”

He leaves powering his spouse (Debbie), their young children (Chelsea and Jordan) and father (Doug). Funeral preparations are pending.