MCCOMB, Miss. ( WJTV ) – Born in McComb in 1976, Castro Coleman graced the world with his musical gift at a young age. The child prodigy, also known as Mr. Sipp, was influenced by his grandfather, Lewis Coleman. The first instrument he played was a guitar.
“I look like him. I walk like him. I think like him. I am Lewis Coleman’s grandson. He was a phenomenal guy. Phenomenal musician. One that never really got his just do. But that was nothing he was looking for anyway,” said Coleman.
Coleman has traveled the world with some of gospel’s greatest like The Legendary Williams Brothers and The Pilgrim Jubilees. He gained national attention with two gospel groups of his own, The True Believers, and highly favored receiving the 2018 Gospel Group of the Year by the Mississippi Gospel Music Awards.
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“Out there on the road, and I’m with Doug Williams, the Melvin Williams, the Henry Green’s, the Harvey Watkins, the Paul Porter’s, the Lee Williams, you know, Frank Williams, the Huey Williams. You know, Mississippi had a strong presence on the professional gospel side. And I’m grateful that those guys that I just named saw a little knucklehead kid like me, embraced me, and chastised me when needed,” he said.