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Tye Tribbett stands in front of his Camden Walk of Fame plaque.Charles Giddins III<\/p>\nTye Tribbett stands in front of his Camden Walk of Fame plaque.Charles Giddins III<\/p>\n
Tye Tribbett says his love of performing and gospel music helped him win three Grammy awards. <\/p>\n
But his induction into the Camden Walk of Fame was more meaningful than any award he\u2019d ever won. <\/p>\n
\u201cTo be honored in your hometown is a big deal to me,\u201d said Tribbett, 49. \u201cTo literally be cemented in the grounds of the foundation of the city [where] you grew up in an honorable way, and not like a tombstone, is really a feeling of gratitude that I really can\u2019t express.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Sept. 22, Tribbett became one of 15 Camden natives honored by the Camden Walk of Fame with a plaque on MLK Boulevard near the Jersey Joe Walcott Statue in Wiggins Park. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt is very difficult to win a Grammy. He\u2019s won three,\u201d said Yocontalie Jackson, the founder of the Camden Walk of Fame and a Grammy-voting member. \u201cTye is a great example of a young person from Camden who had done a lot musically.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tribbett was raised in Camden and spent much of his time at El Bethel church, where his father was the pastor and his mother, the first lady, served as choir director. It was there that he discovered his love of music. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe were there almost every day of the week, so I had a whole lot of time to just jam and kick it,\u201d Tribbett said. \u201cI didn\u2019t realize I was honing a skill or developing a craft or nothing like that. I was just enjoying being able to create music.\u201d<\/p>\n
By the time he turned 18, he knew he wanted to pursue music. <\/p>\n
Tribbett remembers thinking, \u201cI want to play for Hezekiah Walker or Walter Hawkins.\u201d<\/p>\n
Walker\u2019s upbeat, energetic performance style especially inspired Tribbett. <\/p>\n
Walker\u2019s \u201cfrom New York, so he had that Northeast swag, like I had when I was creating music,\u201d Tribbett said. \u201cHe was definitely one of my main mentors from afar.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eventually, Tribbett got a group of singers together and began recording songs and albums in Philadelphia. He toured as a backup vocalist with artists like Faith Hill, Usher and Justin Timberlake. He later went on to win three Grammy awards<\/a> – one in 2013 for Best Gospel Song, \u201cHe Did It Before [Same God]\u201d and another for \u201cGreater Than,\u201d a critically-acclaimed album, which won the Grammy for Best Gospel Album. Then, in 2024, his album, \u201cAll Things New,\u201d won a Grammy for Best Gospel Album. <\/p>\n \u201cIt was surreal,\u201d he said. \u201cI was just so grateful to God for the opportunity.\u201d <\/p>\n In that time, Tribbett also married his wife, had two daughters, and launched an anti-bullying initiative called \u201cAn-Tye Bullying.\u201d <\/p>\n Tribbett was bullied from 6 to 16 years old. <\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re dark skinned. You\u2019re Black. You\u2019re buck-teethed, skinny,\u201d were some of the remarks other children jeered at him, he recalled. <\/p>\n \u201cI was weird to them because I was churchy,\u201d he added. \u201cI was more religious than everybody. I would wear suits to school.\u201d<\/p>\n Church became all the more meaningful to Tribbett, who said it was a place where he could escape to and feel embraced by a community. <\/p>\n \u201cIt kept me in a consistent community that loved me, supported me, and I wasn\u2019t weird,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n Recently, he partnered with the City of Camden,<\/a> which launched an anti-bullying campaign and then spoke at Camden High School about his experiences. <\/p>\n When he entered the auditorium, a band and choir greeted him, playing and singing his songs \u201cVictory\u201d and \u201cNo Way.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI was overwhelmed,\u201d Tribbett said. \u201cIt meant a whole lot to me.\u201d<\/p>\n When he saw them singing, he also felt his music was resonating with a generation that others say is hard to reach, he said.<\/p>\n Jackson said this influence is part of why he was inducted into the Camden Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n It lets Camden youth \u201cknow that they can do it as well, that it\u2019s not so much of a far reach. It\u2019s not that impossible,\u201d she said, \u201cthat it can happen.\u201d <\/p>\n Tribbett will kick off his \u201cWe Outside Tour\u201d in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Oct. 28, with a stop in New York on Nov. 16. Tickets are on sale<\/a> now through Ticketmaster.<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tye Tribbett stands in front of his Camden Walk of Fame plaque.Charles Giddins III Tye Tribbett says his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-82461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}