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On July 27, Fred Hammond, award-winning singer, songwriter, producer and pioneer of urban praise and worship music, will add a new title to his CV. Record label owner.The founding member of Commissioned and his business partner, philanthropist Roy Campbell, will unveil fHammond Family Entertainment on the 27th with the release [...]

PRoRedemptionReflection Music Group 2010www.mynameispro.comDuring the first part of the 20th century, men and women evangelized on street corners to passersby, sinners and saints alike. Their songs were urgent calls to take immediate and swift soul-saving action. To press their point, the evangelists would base their ballad on recent events or [...]

While promoting her fourth and latest CD, Reality (BluSoul Entertainment), gospel artist Lisa McClendon spent time with TBGB reminiscing about her start in the music business and what makes her style truly distinctive. McClendon grew up in Palatka, Florida, a small town about 45 minutes south of Jacksonville. Her family [...]

“A Praise Medley”Bishop Gregory M. Davis, Sr. & the Tabernacle Cathedral ChoirFrom the Alliant Music Group CD The Best of Bishop Gregory M. Davis, Sr.www.alliantmusicgroup.comBaptist-raised Bishop Gregory M. Davis, Sr. admits that he “slipped off to the sanctified church” for a little hallelujah praise and worship. To prove his point, [...]

"Hallelujah to the Lamb"James Hall Presents Voices of CitadelMusicblend Records 2009www.myspace.com/voicesofcitadelJames Hall and Voices of Citadel blew the gramophone horn off its couplings recently with their exciting, Pentecostal cover of the Davis Sisters' classic "Won't It Be Wonderful." The choir's other single, "Hallelujah to the Lamb," is equally sonic vocally [...]

by Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel BlogNext week, the McDonald Sisters of Fayetteville, North Carolina will be one of seven quartets honored at the Gospel Music Workshop of America - Quartet Division’s annual banquet in Cincinnati, Ohio. They will be celebrated along with other legendary quartets such as the [...]

“You Got to Believe in Something” & “I Can See Clearly Now”Jonathan ButlerFrom the Mack Avenue CD So Strong (2010)www.jonathanbutler.comAfter a difficult year that marked the loss of his mother, the passing of his close friend Wayman Tisdale, and his wife Barenese’s battle with cancer, it’s no surprise that South [...]

“You’ll Never Thirst”Juanita BynumFrom the Flow Records CD More Passion (2010)www.juanitabynum.comJuanita Bynum hits another home run, this time with “You’ll Never Thirst,” written by Da’Dra Crawford, Nicole Coleman-Mullen, Brad O’Donnell and Roger Ryan. Bynum delivers the contemporary ballad, based on the “woman at the well” story, with stadium-filling largesse reminiscent [...]

(Atlanta, GA – July 19, 2010) -- Gospel recording artist Darwin Hobbs was hospitalized last week with multiple large blood clots in both lungs. He is being treated at a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, where he currently resides. Hobbs recently had lap band surgery, which went extremely well. He has [...]