Delois Barrett Campbell | Sang in gospel trio, 85

Delois Barrett Campbell, 85, a member of the award-winning Barrett Sisters trio who electrified audiences worldwide with their powerful gospel harmonies, died Tuesday at a Chicago hospital after a long illness, her daughter Mary Campbell said.

The Barrett Sisters, raised on Chicago's South Side and coached to sing by an aunt, grew up to become what music critic Howard Reich of the Chicago Tribune has called "the greatest female trio in gospel history."

The sisters recorded their first album together, Jesus Loves Me, in the mid-1960s. New generations discovered the Barrett Sisters when they appeared in the 1982 documentary Say Amen, Somebody.

Mrs. Campbell's husband, the Rev. Frank Campbell, died in 2000. The trio's surviving members are Rodessa Barrett Porter and Billie Barrett GreenBey. - AP