MARSHALL, Texas — As a little girl growing up in East Texas, Barbara Cox was painfully shy. But she had a gift that she said God wanted her to share with the world.
“Ever since I was a little girl, I would hear songs while sleeping, I would wake up singing the songs that I heard,” she said. “I would sing while on the playground at William B. Travis Elementary (in Marshall)... Later, I sang in a group with my three sisters accompanied by our mother.”
Eventually, she would sing in the St. John Baptist Church Youth Choir in Marshall.
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