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Sacred Strings Records Inc., is an extension of the African American sacred steel music tradition which has its origin in the Church of the Living God, a Holiness-Pentecostal church founded by Mary Lena Lewis Tate in 1903. Sacred steel guitar music was made popular among African Americans in the 1930s. While other black churches were using the piano and organ as their main instrument, the Keith & Jewell Dominion Churches of the Living God were using the Hawaiian steel guitar as their lead instrument in their worship services to make a joyful noise unto the Lord. Sacred Strings Records Inc., was founded in 2009 by Del Ray and Kelli Grace, and later incorporated in August of 2012. It is the only black-owned record label of sacred steel artists in the world. They are headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, the mecca of Sacred Steel Music & History. Sacred Steel music has survived for over eighty years through oral tradition. Fathers taught their sons, older musicians taught the younger musicians. There are no music manuscripts or sheet music on the subject of sacred steel. The music is written in the heart and soul of those destined to carry it on.