Artist description The concept of the National Collegiate Music Conference was birthed in 1992 on the campus of Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina by Minister Desi L. Campbell and The Friends Ministries. The Friends Ministries would invite several college choirs to participate in their annual anniversary celebration. Guest choir would arrive hours before the anniversary celebration service to combine with Friends Ministries in a mass choir. This mass choir would sing at the benediction of the service in the spirit of corporate praise. Each year, guest choir participation increased and included students representing various college from North Carolina, South Carolina and New Jersey. In 1996, this tradition of fellowship and ministry was celebrated in a one-day conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, and was officially named the North Carolina Collegiate Music Conference. In 1997, this combined college mass choir recorded an album produced by the founder, Minister Desi L. Campbell. In 1999, God enlarged the borders of the conference and changed the name to the National Collegiate Music Conference. (NCMC). The National Collegiate Music Conference was formed to help promote, support, and unite college gospel choirs all over the country. Over the past nine years, over 100 colleges, universities, and high schools participated in the National Collegiate Music Conference. The main focus of the NCMC is to give unified praise to God in an effort to persuade all who participate, and are blessed by this ministry, to surrender their lives to Jesus Christ, the Author and the Finisher of Our Faith

Music Style Gospel

Musical Influences Donald Lawrence, John P. Kee, ku

Artist History A Washington, DC, native, Minister Desi L. Campbell relocated to Zebulon, NC, and is a 1986 graduate of W. G. Enloe Gifted and Talented Magnet School in Raleigh, NC. Minister Campbell began playing the piano at the age of 16 under the direction of Rev. Essie Brown at the Stokes Chapel Baptist Church in Middlesex, NC. He later began playing for the Youth Choir at the St. John United Holy Church Choir in Zebulon, NC. He then began taking music lessons from his cousin Minister Kent McNeill Minister of Music of the Upper Room COGIC in Raleigh. He continued his education at the St. Augustine’s College and later transferring to Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, NC. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Johnson C. Smith University with a major in Music and Business Administration in 1993. During his collegiate years he served as Director of the R. W. Johnson Gospel Choir and was a forth place finalist in the McDonalds Gospelfest with the Friends Ministries. With a continued love of his alma mater, Minister Campbell joined and assisted in the inaugural inception of the JCSU Band Booster Club and serves as Chair of the Alumni Band Division. Minister Campbell is Founder of the Friends Ministries, a Group which originated as Friends Ensemble during his collegiate years. Minister Campbell serves as founder and President of the Friends Fellowship Choral Union, a local affiliate of the Thomas A. Dorsey National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses, Inc. He serves as the Family historian for the Campbell/Mcneill-Ray/McClean and Wells/Holmes-Moore/Stokes Family. Striving to become a recognized witness in the Gospel Music Industry, Minister Campbell is a 2000 nominee and finalist for the Waljo Peoples Choice Achievement Award as well as a 2000 nominee and finalist for the new artist of the year. He is a 2001 nominee and finalist for the Walgo People's Choice Hall of Fame as well as Artist of the Year. Minister Campbell has also was the winner of the 2002 North Carolina Gospel announcer Guild Prestige Choir of the Year Award. He was the 4th Place winner in the 2002 Path Mark Gospel Choir Competition in New York along with his choir the Perfecting Praise Chorale. Minister Campbell has recorded 3 albums with the National Collegiate Choir “We are one”, Possess the Land and the coming in March of 2003 “Thank You”. In the fall of 2003, Minster Campbell will open the Perfecting the Art of Music School which will also house the NCMC After-school program, headquarters and other community activities. He was the Minister Campbell has served as President of the National Collegiate Music Conference for the past nine years, Co-Chair of the Southeast Region Music Department and the Southeast Region Newsletter Editor of the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses, Inc., Registration Team, Bookstore Commission, The Joshua Gentry Scholarship committee and the Web Master. (all of the NCGCC). Minister Campbell is a member of the North Carolina Radio Announcers Guild, Where he serves as the assistant secretary. He is a member of the Temple Baptist Church, Charlotte, North Carolina where Bishop Kevin L. Long is Pastor. Presently he is attending Savannah State University seeking teacher certification and plans to obtain a Master's in Public Administration also. He currently attends Gospel Temple COGIC where Pastor Larry S. Murray is the Pastor. The Bibles states that a “people without a vision, will perish. God has entrusted Minister Campbell with a vision to spread the gospel through the medium of music throughout the land “by any means necessary“. He is living that in conjunction with his favorite scripture “I can do all things through Christ that strengthens

Albums We are one

Location Charlotte, NC - USA

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