What are some of Shirley Caesar’s career achievements?

Shirley Caesar’s career achievements include winning her first Grammy Award in 1972, recording a crossover hit on the rhythm and blues and pop charts with “No Charge” in 1975, and topping the Billboard gospel chart in 2016 after a remix of her 1988 single “Hold My Mule” went viral. She was inducted into the Gospel Hall of Fame in 2000.

In 2026 she received her 12th Grammy for the song “Come Jesus Come,” a duet with fellow gospel star CeCe Winans that spent an astounding 59 weeks at the top of the gospel chart.