Tickets for this Sunday's concert have already sold out.

The Mississippi Mass Choir returns to the Tenerife as part of The Gospel Legend Tour to offer a concert on Sunday (22) at 7.30 p.m. in the Symphony Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife. The annual gospel concert has once again sold out the tickets.

The Mississippi Mass Choir was founded in 1988 by Frank Williams, one of the acclaimed Jackson Southernaires and the executive director of the gospel division of Malaco Records. They made their first recording on 28 October of that year at the Jackson Municipal Auditorium. In the spring of 1989, just five weeks after its release, the record topped the Billboard gospel chart.

That same year, the Mississippi Mass Choir was voted the best choir and new artist of the year at the James Cleveland convention in New Orleans. It was also acknowledged at the Stellar Awards for Best Recording, Best New Artist, and Best Gospel Video. It was the perfect take-off for a choir that would end up making the world its stage, touring non-stop through the United States, Japan, Latin America and Europe, in addition to being the first gospel group to perform at the Acropolis of Athens and the first to sing for Pope John Paul II at his summer residence.

The choir's first concert in Spain took place in 1997 at the Maestranza Theatre in Seville. Since then, it has performed in Peralada (Girona), San Sebastian, Madrid and Barcelona. At Christmas 2010, this ensemble accompanied the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra at a traditional concert organised by the Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Its recording label is Malaco Records, known in the American industry as 'The Last Soul Company'. Its catalogue includes all the recordings of gospel artists under the legendary Savoy Records label, from Shirley Caesar to James Cleveland. The label's artists have consistently topped Billboard gospel charts, with hits by Walter Hawkins, the creator of Oh Happy Day, Dorothy Norwood, and the Mississippi Mass Choir.