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JGM Pick of the Week – November 18, 2024
Singer, songwriter, and radio host Shonda English drops a bright and bouncy ballad of thanksgiving called “There Wouldn’t Be a Me.”
Aaron Cole – OMARI
Clocking in at less than ten minutes, OMARI is an affectionate love letter, wrapped in swaddling Christian pop and R&B, from a first-time father to his son.
2025 GRAMMY Nominations in the Gospel and Contemporary Christian Music Group
Congratulations to the 2025 GRAMMY Awards nominees in the Gospel and Contemporary Christian Music Group
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Angelo Ellerbee, the founder/president of Double XXposure Media, who guided entertainment luminaries such as Grammy winning producer James Mtume, Tony Award legend Melba Moore, and the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, has released his fourth in a series of motivational books, Before I Let You Go.
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Recent Posts
JGM Pick of the Week – November 18, 2024
Singer, songwriter, and radio host Shonda English drops a bright and bouncy ballad of thanksgiving called “There Wouldn’t Be a Me.”
Aaron Cole – OMARI
Clocking in at less than ten minutes, OMARI is an affectionate love letter, wrapped in swaddling Christian pop and R&B, from a first-time father to his son.
2025 GRAMMY Nominations in the Gospel and Contemporary Christian Music Group
Congratulations to the 2025 GRAMMY Awards nominees in the Gospel and Contemporary Christian Music Group
Sponsored Post:
Angelo Ellerbee, the founder/president of Double XXposure Media, who guided entertainment luminaries such as Grammy winning producer James Mtume, Tony Award legend Melba Moore, and the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, has released his fourth in a series of motivational books, Before I Let You Go.
“Never Turn Back” Gregory G. Pearson feat. Angelena Starks Inner Court Music (release date: September 15, 2023)
JamesTown Music, founded by GRAMMY-nominated and multiple Stellar Award winner, JJ Hairston, has announced the signing of a deal finalizing a partnership between Motown Gospel and JamesTown Music.
5-0 Studios London and the “Queen of Gospel,” Pastor Shirley Caesar will tell her story in a new film series entitled BLESSINGS - My Life - His Glory.
Marking a new chapter under the Daywind Music Group umbrella, the legendary Southern Gospel group LeFevre Quartet announces their partnership with Daywind Records.
This episode includes music reviewed on the Journal of Gospel Music between mid-July and late September 2024.
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LATEST 5 STAR REVIEWS
Sometimes you come across a singer of significant sensitivity and sometimes you come across a skillful songwriter, but rarely do you come across someone who combines both. Regina Vandereijk has both.
What should have been a celebratory album launch is now a memorial tribute to a beloved southern gospel group.
Fresh off her multi-award-winning debut live project Believe For It, CeCe Winans drops another five-star live project with More Than This.
John Paul McGee A Gospejazzical Christmas Jazz Urbane (release date: November 16, 2023) Guest review by David McGee In A Gospejazzical Christmas, the first new recording we’ve heard from Dr. John Paul McGee, Ph.D., since his acclaimed 2022 release, Gospejazzical Vol. 1, the gifted pianist-songwriter-producer-vocal arranger (currently assistant chair of piano at the Berklee College [...]
For its sixth album and first in three years, gospel group Anthony Brown and Group TherAPy offers a battery of scripture-based affirmations on its album of the same name.
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
Singer, songwriter, and radio host Shonda English drops a bright and bouncy ballad of thanksgiving called “There Wouldn’t Be a Me.”
“Never Turn Back” Gregory G. Pearson feat. Angelena Starks Inner Court Music (release date: September 15, 2023)
Melvin Crispell III – the BET Sunday Best Season 9 champion – gives James Fryson’s classic composition “God Is” an easygoing shuffle tempo.
Bri Babineaux’s best single in a while, “Confident” lives up to its title in lyric and overall musical swagger.
“Wonder In My Soul” Pastor Stephen E. Boyd From the SB Entertainment album Chronicles of My Country Church Vol. 1 (release date: April 12, 2024)
By Robert Marovich
In A City Called Heaven, gospel announcer and music historian Robert Marovich shines a light on the humble origins of a majestic genre and its indispensable bond to the city where it found its voice: Chicago.
By Robert Marovich
In A City Called Heaven, gospel announcer and music historian Robert Marovich shines a light on the humble origins of a majestic genre and its indispensable bond to the city where it found its voice: Chicago.
There aren't many gospel singers left who remember the early days of the genre. But Ms. Bessie Pullen does. The 97-Year-Old singer reflects on her life as a gospel singer in Florida. Her husband, Melvyn Pullen, was a member of the popular quartet the Gospelaires.
Fresh off the thirty-city I Got Away tour, in partnership with McDonald’s Inspiration Celebration Gospel Tour, singer and songwriter Bri Babinieux is looking forward to releasing a new album this fall.
The Beverly Arts Center will open its Pride Month Celebration Sunday, June 9, with Shout OUT: A Tribute to Gays in Gospel Music.
Gospel singer and background vocalist Emily "Cissy" Houston passed away October 7, 2024, at age 91.
The Journal of Gospel Music was saddened to learn today from Darrell Luster of Malaco Music Group that Darryl Frierson, one-half of the twin duo the Joy Boyz, passed away. Homegoing details are below. From the Malaco Music Group bio on the Joy Boyz: If family groups are ubiquitous in gospel music, brother [...]