Ask singer Chrishon Smith of the Anointed Brown Sisters how they got their name and she will tell you, “Well we are brown, and we are sisters, but more importantly we were all filled with the Holy Ghost years back.”

These four women – Mesha Lanier, Ora Brown, Chrishon Smith and her daughter Crystal Smith, comprise the singing group and ministry called the Anointed Brown Sisters.

“We sing so that people might be healed, delivered and set free,” Smith said.

The sisters, who grew up in a family of nine in Havana, Ala., have been singing all of their lives. In addition to performing in Alabama, the sisters have traveled across the country to 21 states and participated in a tour of 12 cities throughout Italy. It was there in Italy that they performed in front of their largest audience of more than 5,000 members.

But before the sisters stepped into the limelight, their first performance began with small audience at their church.

“Our first unofficial show I guess was for the holidays,” Smith said. “We had to sing for any holiday that came up at the church and that’s how we became a group.”

On Sunday, Jan. 27, the Anointed Brown Sisters will perform their annual appreciation concert at the Bama Theatre. The performance, which is held on the last Sunday in January, has become a tradition for the past 14 years.

The doors will open at 4 p.m. with the show beginning at 5 p.m., and tickets are $25 in advance at Rollins Mortuary and $30 the day of the show. Other featured artists who will be performing at the show will be Doc McKenzie and the HiLites, Tim Rogers and the Fellas, Lisa Knowles and the Brown Singers, Blest by Four, and the Blessed Brothers.

“We know that it’s the anointing that makes the difference in your ministry,” Smith said. “That singing is a ministry, that singing is uplifting and if you come seeking, you will get what you are looking for.”