" Mandisa appeared on season 5 of American Idol and finished the competition in the top 9 alongside favorites like Katharine McPhee, Kellie Pickler, Chris Daughtry, Paris Benne...
1 on the Billboard Top Christian Albums chart. She went on to release five more albums throughout her career and earned a Grammy Award for 2013's Overcomer. In 2014, her best friend and backup sin...
"You’re battling shame, and you don’t want to leave the house," she said. "I didn’t leave the house, for the most part. When I got up, I went downstairs, sat in the recliner, and I watched...
One of the things I started hearing during that dark period was: ‘You’re in so much pain. If you take your life, you could be in heaven right now with Jesus.'” Eventually, an intervention by her frien...