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 Owen Jordan started singing gospel music at fourteen years of age with his father, Lawrence Jordan and three of his cousins. The singers called themselves The Jordan Quartet. Owen’s father was a bass singer and Owen learned by singing along with and listening to his father. The group stopped performing when World War II began and some of the members were called to serve their country. After the war, the group got back together and started singing again. On one occasion, Lawrence Jordan could not make a scheduled performance and he told his nephews to take Owen in his place. That’s when Owen met Jack Smith at Five-Forks Baptist Church. Jack would later become a member of one of Owen’s singing groups. Owen is a member of Big Creek Baptist Church in the community of Jordan Hill. The church is considered a singing church and decided to have a singing school with Daniel Cockerham from Olla, LA as its teacher. Owen attended and that’s where he learned to read music. Daniel wanted Owen to sing with him and the next summer, they taught singing schools around the area. Later, Owen went to a Stamps/Baxter music school in Jackson, MS where he took voice lessons. In the summer of 1948, Jack and Owen along with Kenneth Brady formed The Pine Ridge Quartet. Soon after, Clyce Lingenfelter and Bud King joined the quartet. The group has been singing off and on since 1948. Owen has sung with several groups throughout the years. But when the original group could get together, they did so and would gather around the piano and sing. Owen has directed music for many revivals and taught many singing schools at churches throughout the state of Louisiana. Owen is now a deacon of Big Creek Baptist Church and serves as Music Director and as a Sunday School teacher. Owen says that the best experience of his life is when he accepted Christ as his personal Savior in 1974. |
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