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Article: How Donnie McClurkin Overcame Rape, Sexual Abuse And Leukemia Scare To Become A Gospel Music Star.
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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Tell me, what do you give When you've given your all and Seems like you can't make it through? You just stand When there's nothing left to do.(*)
AT 8, Donnie McClurkin was raped by a relative. At 13, he was raped by another relative. At 31, he was diagnosed with leukemia.
But at 36, with church, music and an unyielding faith, McClurkin hit gold with his self-tiffed debut gospel album and changed his life.
And now, after triumphing over traumatic events that would have destroyed a lesser man, McClurkin has decided to tell the true story of how he overcame sexual abuse, family drug addiction, alcoholism, and a life-threatening disease, and found ...