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Not showing the same early development as Aretha Franklin, who was already an accomplished singer, when she was fourteen years old and made her first gospel recordings, Elvis Presley nevertheless sang with pleasure in the church. “I was raised on a gospel,” he recalled later. - This music has always been a part of my life. The gospel was a means to forget about my problems. ” Until 1937, believers had to be content with a tent set up in a wasteland next to Elvis's home in East Tupelo, but when Presley entered the community a few years later, the Pentecostal church had already moved to a more familiar wooden building on Adams Street. For lack of a piano, believers most often sang with a guitar. Vernon, Gladys and Elvis eagerly sang along to those present, but there was no question of making a professional trio. What some journalists described as a “gospel tour” was actually revivals — gatherings that allowed followers of different communities to come together and pray or have a summer picnic with religious chants.