The Davis Sister Video Analysis

The Best of the Davis Sisters is a double LP/single CD album created by the famous and well-established Philadelphia female gospel group called, “The Davis Sisters”, where they released one of their many iconic Gospel songs called “I Believe I'll Go Back Home” in 1978. This gospel group was originally founded by Ruth Davis ("Baby Sis") at 17 years old and featured her sisters Thelma, who wrote songs for the group and was the business manager, as well as the Spiritual leader. Audrey, who was the soprano of the group and led a few songs, Alfreda, who served as the long-time business manager of the group, and lastly Edna, all served as the background vocals. Ruth Davis was often the featured vocalist with a bluesy voice. She was known to be

Their simple clothing style choice allows the audience to gear the focus on their talent. In fact, their vocal talent spoke for itself, rather than distracting the audience with any excessive clothing/accessories. As displayed in this particular video, The Davis Sisters’ clothing decision of just wearing simply designed traditional black matching blouses and skirts reflected their Holiness background. This allows the watchers to focus on their voices and the emotionality that they presented to the audience. Some may say that their fashion adds to their hardcore gospel, however, for the most part, their clothing choice did not majorly add nor take away anything to the performance itself, as their powerful emotionality and hard vocal talent was the central highlighted aspect in their group. Furthermore, in this video, the singers are seen to be performing on a performance stage, as only curtains in the background are observed. This setting helps to highlight the singers themselves and allows the audience to easily pay attention to the singers’ voices rather than any distracting backgrounds or settings. This powerful female gospel group continuously engages the audience through their emotionality and physical gestures, as the background vocalists sway. At the same time, their heads face the microphone while singing, and the lead singer extends her body in an intense emotional forward motion creating a sense of unity and empowerment among the group. Throughout the video, it is seen that The Davis Sisters conducted their singing with rhythmic and sometimes even spontaneous spirited choreography. For example, at one point in the song, around 0:58 seconds, background vocalist Jackie Verdell clapped her hands. Whether that was purposeful or unintentional, the timing of that clap worked out perfectly, as the lead singer was just about