This biography was provided by the Billy Graham Crusade. I've been listening to Bev Shea sing for more than 50 years, and I would still rather hear him sing than anyone else I know. Since the beginning of Mr. Graham's crusade ministry, Shea and Cliff Barrows have been the nucleus of the crusade musical team.
Barrows is choir director, platform emcee, and radio-television program director.
They were joined in 1950 by pianist Tedd Smith, and through the years, organists Don Hustad and John Innes have provided additional accompaniment. Mr. Shea is noted for the simplicity of his faith and testimony. To him, compromise is unthinkable. A man of deep sympathies, he will listen endlessly to the troubles of others but dismiss his own with a word and a smile. Mr. Shea and his wife, Karlene, make their home in North Carolina.