Marvin Sapp is an American Gospel music singer, recording with the group Commissioned during the 1990s before beginning a solo career. Sapp is also the Founder and Senior pastor of Lighthouse Full Life Center Church, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Sapp was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan and began singing in church at age four. He spent his teenage years singing with a number of Gospel groups and ensembles before being invited by Gospel singer Fred Hammond to sing with Commissioned. Sapp appears on the group's albums Number 7 and Matters of the Heart.