Mama, I Want to Sing! (film)

Mama, I Want to Sing! is a 2012 musical drama film starring Ciara, written and directed by Charles Randolph-Wright, an adaptation of the 1983 off-Broadway gospel stage musical of the same name written and produced by Vy Higginsen and Ken Wydro. It was the final film produced by Fox Faith prior to its dissolving. The film is based on the life story of Higginsen's sister, Doris Troy, a preacher's daughter who sang in a church choir before being discovered by James Brown.