The seventh of twelve children, Vickie was born in Detroit, Michigan to Mattie A. Bowman, a housewife, and Aaron Bowman, a father who worked at various times as a laborer, contractor, carpenter and mason. She began singing in church â the International Gospel Center â at the age of eight, and as a teenager she sang with a group known as the International Sounds of Deliverance. Some of her siblings include Beverly Bouldes, Sandi Tyler, Irma Crockett, Annette Tharpe, Aaron Bowman, Jr. , Carleen Riley, Cathy Williams, Mary Sturdivant, Bryan,and Lorne Bowman.
The seventh of twelve children, Vickie was born in Detroit, Michigan to Mattie A. Bowman, a housewife, and Aaron Bowman, a father who worked at various times as a laborer, contractor, carpenter and mason. She began singing in church â the International Gospel Center â at the age of eight, and as a teenager she sang with a group known as the International Sounds of Deliverance. Some of her siblings include Beverly Bouldes, Sandi Tyler, Irma Crockett, Annette Tharpe, Aaron Bowman, Jr. , Carleen Riley, Cathy Williams, Mary Sturdivant, Bryan,and Lorne Bowman....