A Taste of Heaven: The Ecstatic Song & Gospel of Maestro Raymond Anthony Myles

Overview

Raymond Anthony Myles was the electrifying Gospel Genius of New Orleans. Like a comet shooting across the sky, he was here one minute – brilliant, incandescent and unmistakably unique. And then, just as quickly, he was gone… But Raymond was more than a maverick musician. He was also highly representative of a vital but scorned minority within the Black church: a queer man who struggled with dogma and Scripture that said, "God's love does not apply to you."

Cast

John Boutté

Big Freedia

Mahalia Jackson

Cyril Neville

Harry Shearer

Irma Thomas

Allen Toussaint