Kenneth Copeland is an American (neo-pentecostal) Word Faith teacher, preacher, singer, televangelist, actor and author. He was born on December 6, 1936 in Lubbock, Texas and used to be a successful pop singer before turning his life over to ministry in November, 1962. He is considered to be a part of the Charismatic movement. In the 1960s, he was a pilot for faith healer Oral Roberts. He attended Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Later he studied another Pentecostal evangelist, Kenneth E. Hagin. His ministry grew through the 1970s, and in 1979, "Believer's Voice of Victory" first appeared on the airwaves. Kenneth Copeland Ministries has its headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas. For more than 25 years he has been holding annual week-long Believers' Conventions in California and Fort Worth with partners such as Creflo A. Dollar, Jesse Duplantis, and Jerry Savelle, along with his wife Gloria.