Champion of gospel; As gospel music's largest convention comes to town, Twin Cities choir director Bobby Champion aims to take his Excelsior ensemble nationwide.(VARIETY)

From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: August 10, 2001| Author: Bream, Jon | Copyright information

Byline: Jon Bream; Staff Writer

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Those long, skinny arms are the first thing you notice about Bobby Champion.

Untiring and mesmerizingly graceful, they dart like a falcon when he conducts his Excelsior Choral Ensemble. And when he speaks in the courtroom in his day job as a lawyer, they drive up and down like pistons.

Can he talk without them?

"No," he said, managing to restrain himself for once. "It's hard. Wh...

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