Path MEGAzine is sad to announce the passing of Gospel legend Mosie Burks, known affectionately as "Mama Burks."  

Mama Mosie Burks was born in 1933, into a large migrant farming family in Forest, Mississippi. As a child, she helped her parents pick cotton to make a living, but she was delivered from fieldwork after she kept passing out from the intense Mississippi sun. Early on, she drew inspiration from the singing of Mahalia Jackson and guitar-toting evangelist Sister Rosetta Tharpe; so much so that she took up the guitar at age 12, playing for her local church.