Tasha Cobbs Leonard
Tasha Cobbs Leonard is a GRAMMY® Award-winning singer/songwriter and two-time winner of the Billboard Music Award for Top Gospel Artist. She launched to fame with her 2013 debut album, “Grace,” followed by the 2015 album “One Place Live,” which earned her another GRAMMY® nomination and multiple accolades, including two Billboard Music Award nominations and a BET Award nomination. Throughout her career, she has received three Stellar Awards and three Dove Awards. In October 2022, she released her latest album, “Hymns.”
Since 1990, the Realizing the Dream Concert has welcomed well-known authors, actors and singers to the stage of The University of Alabama's Moody Music Hall.
2022
Kierra Sheard-Kelly, gospel singer
2020
Jonathan McReynolds, singer
2019
Marvin Sapp, gospel singer
2018
Mary Mary, gospel singers
2017
Kirk Franklin, gospel singer
2016
Jonathan Butler, singer
2015
CeCe Winans, gospel singer
2014
John Legend, singer
2013
Take 6 and the Aeolians, singers
2012
Chris Kozak Jazz Quintet with guitarist Eric Essix
2011
Alabama Symphony Orchestra and
violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain
2010
Alabama Symphony Orchestra with area singers
2009
Aaron Dobynes, singer
Belinda George-Peoples
Prentice Concert Chorale and area school choirs
2008
Stillman, Shelton State and UA choirs
2007
Benita Washington, gospel singer
2006
Stephanie Jordan, jazz singer
2005
Everett McCorvey, opera singer
2004
Yolanda Adams, gospel singer
2003
Tonea Stewart, actress and professor
2002
Al Green, gospel and soul singer
2001
Take 6, a cappella singers
2000
Ossie Davis, actor
1999
Vivian Malone Jones, civil rights pioneer
1998
Roberta Flack, singer
1997
Maya Angelou, poet and philosopher
1996
Sidney Poitier, actor
1995
Harry Belafonte, singer
1994
Julian Bond, civil rights leader 1993
Cicely Tyson, actress
1992
Della Reese, singer
1991
William Warfield, opera singer
1990
James Earl Jones, actor