Richard Odom has been an invaluable resource for the Professor Carol team. His musicianship came into play far more often than his on-camera appearances would suggest. He is becoming a leading figure in African American sacred music.

A native of South Carolina, received the BM in vocal performance from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC in 2006. He is a singer, composer and conductor whose distinctions include receiving the Magnolia Lewis Butts Piano Scholarship Award, the Annual Waljo People’s Choice Award in singing and the National Association of Negro Business Women’s Leontyne Price Vocal Arts Competition.

Before returning to graduate study, Richard was Head Musician at the Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Plano and is presently Director of the Black Academy of Arts and Letters Children’s Chorus. He has been an annual conducting clinician for the African American Sacred Music Festival in Orangeburg, South Carolina, a position he holds today and he was the former Director of the Tri-City Singers, a choral ensemble in Spartanburg, NC.

He may be heard on recordings of sacred and secular music as soloist, ensemble singer, instrumentalist, conductor and arranger. He has sung in recitals and concerts both nationally and internationally.