Mary Love

Mary Love, born (sources differ) as Mary Ann Allen or Mary Ann Varney (27 July 1943, Sacramento, California), and later known as Mary Love Comer, is an American soul and gospel singer, and Christian evangelist.

After being discovered by Sam Cooke's manager, J.W. Alexander, she began singing on sessions in Los Angeles before recording “You Turned My Bitter Into Sweet” for the Modern record label in 1965. Later records for the label met with little success until "Move a Little Closer," which made the R&B chart in 1966. Her recordings for Modern, sone of which were issued in the UK, subsequently became popular on the English Northern soul scene. She revisited the lower reaches of the R&B chart with "The Hurt Is Just Beginning" for Roulette in 1968, but thereafter made few recordings for some years.

In the early 1980s she re-emerged as Mary Love Comer, singing gospel-flavoured soul with a Christian message. With husband Brad Comer she released the single "Come Out Of The Sandbox" in 1987, and the couple ran their own church in Tennessee. According to Mary Love's current (2011) website, she now lives again in California.