Editing The Soul Stirrers (section)

===Formation===
The group was formed by '''(Silas) Roy Crain''', launching his first quartet who sang in a [[Jubilee quartets|jubilee]] style, in 1926 in [[Trinity, Texas]], United States.<ref name="Larkin50"/> In the early 1930s, after Crain moved to [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], he joined an existing group on the condition that it change its name to ''The Soul Stirrers'': this name yields from the description of one of Roy Crain's earlier quartets as "soul-stirring". Among the members of that group there was [[R.H. Harris|R.H. (Rebert) Harris]], who soon became its musical leader.<ref name="Larkin50"/> The Soul Stirrers, formed as a jubilee quartet, transformed their sound, influenced by hard gospel singers such as [[Mahalia Jackson]] and [[Sister Rosetta Tharpe]].