Roger Bennett Tribute Page

Roger Bennett March 10,1959 - March 17, 2007

Roger Bennett was born in Strawberry, Arkansas on March 10, 1959. He played in a local group before joining the Cathedral Quartet in 1979 at the age of 20 years old. In fact it was at a local concert around where Roger was from that Steve Lee and Kirk Talley heard him at a concert (with several other artists) and the went and told Glen Payne & George Younce (who were both on the bus) that they just had to hear him to believe it. Later that night they hired him to take over the piano playing for Steve Lee which allowed Steve Lee to concentrate on just being the group’s baritone singer. Roger stayed with the Cathedral Quartet for almost 20 years. He left in the late ‘80’s for a short while to help get a record company started (Journey Records). In December of 1998 (I believe) George Younce and Glen Payne announced that the final tour of the Cathedral Quartet would end in December of 1999. So during that last year Roger Bennett and Scott Fowler started working on putting together their own quartet now known as Legacy Five. They started traveling together in January of 2000, just a few days after the final concert of the Cathedral Quartet. Roger traveled with them over the past couple of years whenever possible. But due to his health situation with leukemia he had to miss concerts every now and then because of chemo and the two or three attempted bone marrow/stem cell transplants. He finally knows the reality of the songs he sung about and co-wrote with his wife Debbie, “Jesus Saves”, and “I’ve Read the Back of the Book And We Win“. Be Praying for the Bennett Family and the Legacy Five Family during this time.