From Elev8.com: Here I Am, the latest release from Marvin Sapp, celebrates its fourth week atop the Billboard Top Gospel Charts. In addition, the release sits at #7 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Charts and #17 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums charts. WOW Gospel 2010 maintains the #2 position this week. Karen Clark Sheard’s All […]
From New Orleans Times-Picayune: Marva Wright, the powerhouse New Orleans blues and gospel singer who left her job as a school secretary to sing around the world, died Tuesday of complications from a pair of strokes she suffered in 2009. She was 62. Ms. Wright died at the eastern New Orleans home of her eldest […]
VIA: Milwaukee Courier With a voice that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said “comes along once in a millennium,” the legend that is Mahalia Jackson is celebrated in “A Gospel Calling: Mahalia Jackson Sings,” gracing DVD April 13 from Infinity Entertainment Group. Born into poverty in 1911, Mahalia Jackson’s throaty, fervent, rich and distinctive […]
VIA: Entertainment Weekly Whether he’s facing the judges or facing down an American Idol exit interview, Jermaine Sellers is never at a loss for words. He talked happily about his eclectic fashion choices, his outsized personality, why he confused Idol associate music director Michael Orland for a certain King of Pop, and who was always on […]
VIA: Elev8.com The greats of the gospel music world came out in full force for the 25th Annual Stellar Music Awards, which aired Sunday, February 28 on the Gospel Music Channel. Check out some photos from the red carpet and behind the scenes at the 2010 Stellar Music Awards.
VIA: New York Times Patty Griffin’s new gospel-infused album, “Downtown Church,” celebrates what she calls the largely untapped soul of American music. But it also honors one part of a holy trinity of musicians for Ms. Griffin, a singer and songwriter who is more at home in the world of crossing genres than crossing Jordan. […]
By Mark Chappelle Coston at Elev8.com This year’s ceremony for the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards was touted as the most exciting ceremony in years, drawing in more than 25 millions viewers. However, unless those viewers visited Grammy.com, they probably didn’t find out about the latest pack of winners in the Gospel music field (most awards […]
VIA: Breathecast.com Gospel recording artists Mary Mary, Smokie Norful, and Donald Lawrence are among those nominated for the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, taking place tonight in Los Angeles. Mary Mary, on the strength of the hit single “God In Me,” is up for Best Gospel Song while both Smokie Norful and Donald Lawrence earned nominations […]
VIA: SingersRoom.com Hezekiah Walker, Vickie Winans, Smokie Norful, Donnie McClurkin and Mary Mary led the pack of winners at the 25th annual Stellar Awards this weekend. Hosted by Kirk Franklin, Vickie Winans and Donnie McClurkin, this year’s Stellar Awards also featured performances from Dottie Peoples, Shirley Caesar, Marvin Sapp, Byron Cage, Donnie McClurkin and Tramaine […]
VIA: Houston Chronicle Houston rapper Bushwick Bill of the Geto Boys is finally unleashing his long-promised gospel-rap album. The video for the disc’s title track, Testimony of Redemption, was filmed in Houston and Los Angeles. It details Bill’s hard-knock life from Geto Boy to gunshot victim to gospel rapper. Check out the video below. The […]
VIA: AJC.com Atlanta West Pentecostal Church choir of Lithia Springs won the Verizon How Sweet the Sound gospel competition in Detroit Saturday and brought home not only the title, but $25,000 in cash for winning and $5,000 for being getting the most votes from the audience. A bit of icing on the cake is that […]
VIA: Syracuse.com Another phone rings in the background, but Stevie Wonder remains relaxed. Cool. Confident. Full of conviction as a half-hour phone interview winds through various topics that cover his yesterdays, the music world today and Friday’s concert at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino Event Center in Verona. No rush, Wonder says. Other calls […]
