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Here's a headline: His grandkid is singing anthem at Cowboys game
Published: 8/27/2010 6:45 PM
Last Modified: 8/28/2010 7:54 AM

Small world? The sports world is.

Rhema Marvanne, a 7-year-old gospel-singing sensation from Carrollton, Texas, is scheduled to perform the national anthem before the Dallas Cowboys final preseason game next Thursday against the Miami Dolphins.

Rhema is the granddaughter of Bob Colvin, a retired Tulsa World sports copy editor and headline-writing ace.

Colvin was the fellow responsible for the “Miracle on 11th Street” headline following Tulsa’s upset victory over Texas A&M in 1991. Colvin, who never wanted to underachieve on a headline, routinely churned out clever stuff like “Piggies Go To Marquette” when Arkansas played Marquette in the 1996 NCAA Tournament.

Colvin has a way with words. Apparently, so does his granddaughter and she’ll be tuning up for her Jerry World appearance with a 7:30 p.m. Saturday Aug. 28 concert at the Cleveland (Okla.) Event Center.

Rhema became an online star after a video of her singing “Amazing Grace” went viral. Since then, she has been in a music video, appeared on Maury Povich’s television show and has been blitzed by performance requests.

The Dallas Morning News, which recently wrote a feature piece on Rhema, said movie crews filmed her singing for an upcoming movie starring Gerard Butler. Rhema's father told the newspaper she has received offers for record albums and to perform on more television shows.

The Morning News article quoted Rhema as saying she was inspired to sing by her mother, Wendi, who died of ovarian cancer in 2008.

If you want to check out the little gal’s voice, you can visit her web site, rhemamarvanne.com.




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Tulsa World sports writer Jimmie Tramel is a former class president at Locust Grove High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a journalism degree and, while attending college, was sports editor of the Pryor Daily Times. He joined the Tulsa World on Oct. 17, 1989, the same day an earthquake struck the World Series. He is the OSU basketball beat writer and a columnist and feature writer during football season. In 2007, he wrote a book about Oklahoma State football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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