Sunday, January 9, 2022 - 3:00pm

1590 27th Ave, Vero Beach, FL 32960


TRAD How Great Thou Art
TRAD Amazing Grace
TRAD It is Well
TRAD He Hideth My Soul
TRAD No Need to Fear
TRAD I Surrender All
TRADAmen
GABRIEL His Eye is on the Sparrow
TRAD He’s Got The Whole World in His Hands
TRAD Down By the Riverside
TRAD He Shall Overcome
TRAD Power in the Blood
TRAD To God Be the Glory
ANDROZZO If I Can Help Somebody
STILLMAN / DRAKE I Believe
TRAD Kum Ba Yah

Wintley Phipps, baritone

Many consider Wintley Phipps to be both an artist — and an inspiration. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, the two-time Grammy Award nominee is an ordained Seventh-day Adventist minister, world-renowned vocal artist, and innovative creator of special projects such as the US Dream Academy.  Phipps will lend his booming baritone for a powerful program with Aaron and your Space Coast Symphony, featuring “It Is Well with My Soul,” “To God Be the Glory,” “Amazing Grace,” and many other well loved spirituals and hymns. Highly acclaimed for his spectacular performances, Phipps has performed for six American Presidents including Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama as well as performances for Mother Teresa and South African president, Nelson Mandela. Mr. Phipps’ work has been featured numerous times on television, including appearances on the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. television special, Dr. Robert Schuller’s Hour of Power telecast, the Bill Graham Crusades, Saturday Night Live, Soul Train, and the Oprah Winfrey Show.

Artist Information


Wintley Phipps is a world-renowned vocal artist, education activist, motivational speaker, pastor, and CEO and Founder of the U.S. Dream Academy. For his work at the U.S. Dream Academy he has received numerous service awards, among them: The Excellence in Mentoring for Program Leadership Award from MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnerships; the Oprah Winfrey Angel Network Use Your Life Award; and Philanthropist of the Year Award from The National Center for Black Philanthropy, Inc.  For more than twenty-eight years, he has traveled the world delivering messages of hope, advocacy, and equality to many thousands of people. A video of Phipps performing "Amazing Grace" has enjoyed over seven million views on YouTube.  Notably, one of his most recent renditions of that same song came at the 56th Inaugural Presidential Prayer Service on January 21, 2009.

A two-time Grammy Award nominee, Phipps is no stranger to performing in front of distinguished audiences. In addition to President Barack Obama, other notable listeners have included former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, former South African President Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and Oprah Winfrey. Phipps is also an internationally recognized speaker on behalf of the U.S. Dream Academy and young people, having completed speaking engagements in Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa, and North and South America. In recognition of his positive global impact through speaking, The National Speakers Association awarded Phipps the prestigious Master of Influence Award.

Born in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Phipps moved to Montreal at an early age and then studied at Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama, where he received his bachelor of arts degree in theology. He went on to earn a master of divinity degree from Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan. Phipps has three sons with his wife Linda Diane Galloway Phipps and currently serves as the senior pastor of the Palm Bay Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Palm Bay, Florida.