The Chicago Music Awards announced that legendary gospel singer Leanne Faine will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award during the CMA's 30th Anniversary awards ceremony.The 30th Anniversary Chicago Music Awards will be held on Sunday, January 16, 2011, at the historic Excalibur, located at 632 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois. For more information call 312/427-0266 or visit [...]
TBGB thanks Anna Miller of Online Degree for sharing their picks for top ten gospel singers of all time. Check out the videos associated with each artist.http://www.onlinedegree.net/top-10-gospel-singers-of-all-time/Readers: who would you add to the list?
Aaron NevilleI Know I’ve Been ChangedEMI Gospel 2010http://www.emigospel.com/Reviewed by Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.While listening to Aaron Neville's latest religious release, I Know I've Been Changed, I decided that one thing hasn't changed at all: his unmistakable voice. Neville's distinctive vodel and vibrato are as bright and musical as they were on his 1966 [...]
“Blessings”John P. Kee feat. Rance AllenFrom the forthcoming Verity album The Legacy Project(available January 11, 2011)http://www.verityrecords.com/What better day than Thanksgiving to review a song called “Blessings!”Here, John P. Kee hangs with the loping ostinato riff while Rance Allen all but steals the show. Kee is thinking about, and patiently waiting [...]
Micah StampleyRelease Me - EPMusic World Gospel/Interface Entertainment (2010)http://www.musicworldentertainment.com/Reviewed by Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Contemporary gospel balladeer Micah Stampley joined forces recently with Mathew Knowles’ Music World Gospel imprint. The EP Release Me is a product of the partnership and an expeditious way to introduce Stampley to gospel [...]
Various ArtistsBishop Morton Celebrates 25 Years of MusicLight Records/Tehillah Music Group (2010)http://www.lightrecords.com/Reviewed by Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.If imitation is the highest form of flattery, Bishop Paul S. Morton must be feeling ten feet tall. Some of gospel’s most popular artists gathered in Atlanta to celebrate the pastor’s [...]
Christian hip hop artist Lecrae Moore of Houston, Texas is one of the first – if not THE first – Christian rap artists to reach the number one position on Billboard’s Top Gospel Albums chart with two consecutive projects. TBGB had a chance to catch up with Lecrae last week. [...]
The Sowetan announced that producer Sizwe Zako was honored with a Lifetime Achiever Award and crowned the new King of Gospel at the Crown Gospel Awards in Durban on Sunday.Zako's work with Rebecca Malope, Pure Magic and the late Vuyo Mokoena celebrates the rich, vibrant and rhythmic harmonies of South African gospel. You hear it [...]
“He Knows”Karen Clark SheardFrom the Karew Records/EMI Gospel CD All In Onehttp://www.karewrecords.com/Asking herself the rhetorical questions that trouble those in need, Karen Clark Sheard wonders whether God knows about her tears, her sleepless nights, her joys and dreams, even “does he know my weakness when I feel like I want [...]
Patrice WilsonA Christmas Blessing (2010)www.cdbaby.com/cd/patricewilson2by Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Stellar Award-nominee Patrice Wilson returns after a five-year absence from the recording scene to offer a toast of Yuletide cheer with A Christmas Blessing. Wilson’s first seasonal CD includes two original songs and nine classics, the latter “some of [...]
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