Jimmy Swaggart, who was one of America’s most influential twinists in the 1980s, before an affair with a prostitute brought down his career, has died at the age of 90.
Swaggart grew up in a musical talented family and related to Rockabilly Pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis and Country Music Star Mickey Giley.
While his cousins gained significant fame in secular music, Swaggart pursued gospel music and twinization.
Ironically, both of his talented cousins died in 2022. Mickey Giley died at the age of 86 in May 2022, while Jerry Lee Lewis died at the age of 87 in October 2022.
In his heyday as a fundamentalist Pentecostal preacher, Swaggart had an estimated global audience of 200 million. Then came prostitute scandal in 1988.
With tears that went down his cheeks, Swaggart admitted to his congregation that he had sinned – without giving details – and begging forgiveness.
A tall, muscular man with chiseled traits, Swaggart was an impressive figure when he began his own career by preaching on street corners and at rural Pentecostal meetings, filled with singing, vicinity and talking in tongues.
In 1969 he had enough success to start the “Camp Hour meeting”, a radio broadcast, and his star rose higher as he took his sermons to television in 1973.
After the news of his death was announced, thousands of people went to social media and asked for the details of Jimmy Swaggart’s funeral service.
According to his site, no service was planned for Tuesday.
