Terrance Kelly has won a Gospel Music Academy Award as well as an Emmy for his choir directing and his arrangements of gospel music. He is the artistic director of the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir in California. This choir, founded in 1986 and also award winning, reaches out across cultural and religious boundaries through gospel music and has performed on a wide variety of national and international scenes – sometimes in front of celebrities such as Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and Mikhail Gorbatjov. Terrance Kelly has been in high demand as a soloist, choir director and instructor for the last 25 years.