Rodessa Barrett Porter, the youngest sister who sang soprano, is the only member of the trio still living. Delois Barrett Campbell, the group’s leader, died at age 85 on August 2, 2011. Delois’s youngest daughter, Mary A. Campbell, spoke about the loss of her aunt Billie.

What happened to Delois Barrett voice?

Campbell had stopped singing in the past two years after polyps had reduced her voice to a whisper. Because of arthritis, she had been in a wheelchair since the late 1990s. Mrs. Campbell’s husband died in 2000.

How old was Dolores Barrett when she died?

Delois Barrett Campbell, whose subtle phrasing and silvery soprano helped define the sound of the Barrett Sisters, a prominent Chicago gospel trio featured in the 1982 documentary “Say Amen, Somebody,” died on Tuesday in Chicago. She was 85. The cause was a pulmonary embolism, her daughter Mary Campbell said.

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