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Konai Adelphe – Everybody
Taking their name from the Greek term for “equal sister,” Knoxville, Tennessee, female quintet Konai Adelphe (pronounced Ko-nigh A-del-fay) lives up to their name in sound and core beliefs.
50 years ago, a South Side church choir’s hit single made them national stars
My article on the Beautiful Zion Missionary Baptist Church, as featured in the Chicago Tribune on May 31, 2023. During a break at the Brunswick Studio in Chicago one day in 1972, engineer Bruce Swedien asked Willie Henderson if he knew of any good gospel groups. Music label founder Billy [...]
JGM Pick of the Week – May 30, 2023
Tim Woodson and the Heirs of Harmony transport their audience back to the days of yea and nay with the traditional-flavored “Move Upstairs.”
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Konai Adelphe – Everybody
Taking their name from the Greek term for “equal sister,” Knoxville, Tennessee, female quintet Konai Adelphe (pronounced Ko-nigh A-del-fay) lives up to their name in sound and core beliefs.
50 years ago, a South Side church choir’s hit single made them national stars
My article on the Beautiful Zion Missionary Baptist Church, as featured in the Chicago Tribune on May 31, 2023. During a break at the Brunswick Studio in Chicago one day in 1972, engineer Bruce Swedien asked Willie Henderson if he knew of any good gospel groups. Music label founder Billy [...]
JGM Pick of the Week – May 30, 2023
Tim Woodson and the Heirs of Harmony transport their audience back to the days of yea and nay with the traditional-flavored “Move Upstairs.”
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Kell Bailey’s Evidence is a collection of bracing P&W selections with traces of hymnody embedded in their DNA.
The Mississippi Mass Choir’s latest single “The Promise” has more of a pop sound than we’re used to from a group best known for combining the intensity of quartet singing with the full-throated sound of a community choir.
Chicago-based gospel singer Betty Lester gets real about the challenges of life on this special Spiritual Warfare episode of "Conversations with the Gospel Legends."
Jonathan Butler Ubuntu Mack Avenue Music Group / Artistry Music (release date: April 28, 2023) By Robert M. Marovich What makes Ubuntu outstanding is that it doesn’t just feature [...]
Belfast Community Gospel Choir Strictly Gospel Independent (2016) By Robert M. Marovich Gospel music is truly an international phenomenon. Anyone who follows the genre knows that there are talented [...]
Platinum-Selling Group, Shekinah Glory Ministry Will Pre-Screen Forthcoming Documentary Series “PRAISE IS WHAT I DO: BEYOND THE PRAISE” in Oak Forest June 9
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Jonathan Butler Ubuntu Mack Avenue Music Group / Artistry Music (release date: April 28, 2023) By Robert M. Marovich What makes Ubuntu outstanding is that it doesn’t just feature Jonathan Butler, smooth jazz artist, but Jonathan Butler, smooth jazz artist who has returned to his roots and applied his craft to an expression of [...]
Belfast Community Gospel Choir Strictly Gospel Independent (2016) By Robert M. Marovich Gospel music is truly an international phenomenon. Anyone who follows the genre knows that there are talented gospel choirs everywhere. Like the Gospel itself, it spread from the work of a few dedicated people to all corners of the earth. Strictly Gospel [...]
Da' T.R.U.T.H. gathered an all-star crew of veteran and current gospel stars—from Fred Hammond and Yolanda Adams to Dante Bowe and Maranda Curtis—to assist on his self-titled Emanuel.
Picks: “Step Back and Watch Him Work,” “When All God’s Children (Mom’s Song)” (bonus track)
Picks: “Always Peace,” “Waiting,” “Call My Name”
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
Tim Woodson and the Heirs of Harmony transport their audience back to the days of yea and nay with the traditional-flavored “Move Upstairs.”
“When Love Comes In” Jonathan Butler feat. Keb’ Mo’ From the Artistry Music / Mack Avenue Music Group album Ubuntu (release date: April 28, 2023)
“It Is Well” Monica Lisa Stevenson Blacksmoke Music Worldwide (release date: April 28, 2023)
“Heaven Belongs to You” The Wilson Family of Cades JEF Records (release date: March 7, 2023)
“Till We Meet” Jerard & Jovaun From the CD No Troubled Hearts (release date: February 17, 2023)
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.
By Robert M. Marovich What if your music ministry provided songs for not one church, nor two, nor even three, but hundreds? That’s what King’s Collective does. King’s Collective is the artistic arm of King’s Cathedral & Chapels. From a First Assembly of God church of 100 members in Maui, Hawaii, to planting churches [...]
Christmas spirit filled the air when the McDonald’s Inspiration Celebration Gospel Tour: Homecoming Edition hit Houston, Texas, on December 2.
Robert M. Marovich Ray Kroc was 52 when he opened his first McDonald’s restaurant in 1955. Col. Harland Sanders was in his 60s when his “Finger Lickin’ Good” Kentucky Fried Chicken became a national sensation. Duncan Hines didn’t license his name for cake mixes until age 73. And Johnny Ray Daniels didn’t release his first [...]
Lloyd Cannady Jr., age 80, slipped away peacefully on Monday, May 1, 2023.
By Robert M. Marovich Paul Beasley, a celebrated gospel quartet singer, passed away Monday, March 13, 2023, at the age of 78. Born in Louisiana, Beasley spent a long career singing tenor with the Gospel Keynotes, alongside Willie Neal Johnson, Gino Smith, Val Alexander, and Johnny Jones. He also sang with the Mighty Clouds [...]
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