Janet Paschal was born on October 18,1956 and is an inspirational gospel vocalist.
21 Facts About Janet Paschal
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Janet Paschal has released numerous albums in that genre and has received multiple fan awards and Grammy and Dove Award nominations.
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Janet Paschal grew up in a musically inclined Christian family; her father and his brothers played bluegrass instruments and sang in area churches as the Janet Paschal Brothers.
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Janet Paschal's grandfather was a minister who served as an inspiration in her life as she attended his church growing up.
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Janet Paschal started her professional career as a vocalist after graduating from high school.
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In 1998, Janet Paschal met John Lanier, a commercial airline pilot.
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Janet Paschal was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 and took a year off from touring to undergo chemotherapy and radiation treatments at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.
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In 2017, Janet Paschal earned a master's degree with honors in Accounting from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, as well as induction into the Beta Gamma Sigma international honor society for collegiate schools of business.
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At eighteen, Janet Paschal was hired for her first professional singing job, as the featured soprano with The LeFevres, an Atlanta-based family singing group.
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Janet Paschal sang with the group from 1974 to 1981.
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Janet Paschal began her solo career, releasing her first album, titled I Give You Jesus, on Swaggart's ministry label, Shiloh Records, in 1984.
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Janet Paschal's self-titled debut album with Word was nominated for a Dove Award for "Inspirational Album of the Year" in 1990.
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Janet Paschal's single "Hide Me Sweet Rock of Ages" was No 1 on The Singing News Top 80 Chart in August 2009.
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Janet Paschal has earned multiple Diamond Awards and numerous Grammy nominations, and she is consistently named among Gospel Music's favorite soloists by the genre's top trade magazines.
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In 1998, Janet Paschal performed her song "Another Soldier's Coming Home", written as a tribute to her grandfather, upon invitation for the National Memorial Service of First Lieutenant Michael Blassie, the first unknown soldier from the Vietnam War to be exhumed and positively identified.
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In 2009, Janet Paschal started a radio program focused on cancer awareness, Walking The Good Road, that aired on more than 30 stations in the US and Canada.
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Janet Paschal began the Annual Cancer Walk at Gospel Music's premier weeklong festival NQC.
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In May 2019, Janet Paschal was inducted into the Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee.
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In October 2022, Janet Paschal was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in Kannapolis, North Carolina.
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Janet Paschal served as the spokeswoman for an international Christian relief organization "Mission of Mercy", founded by missionaries Mark and Huldah Buntain.
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Janet Paschal was a contributing writer to Homecoming Magazine with a monthly feature called "The Good Road".