“Closer”Donna McAfeewww.cdbaby.com/Artist/DonnaMcAfeeLos Angeles-based Donna McAfee released her contemporary gospel debut CD So Blessed some years ago, garnering praise from Billboard. Since then, she has been a willing worker behind the scenes, producing award-winning commercial jingles and successful programs such as the gospel hip hop show, "West Coast Praze."Donna has now [...]
“So What”5 A.M. PraiseFrom the forthcoming Born Again Records album All From Above – The Best of 5 A.M. Praisewww.5ampraise.org“So What” is from biological sisters Temera and Toy, better known as the Stellar Award-nominated duo 5 A.M. Praise. It’s the first radio single from their third upcoming album, All From [...]
From a press release:(Brooklyn, NY – May 10, 2010) Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and City Council Member Letitia James will announce the formation of the Brooklyn Interdenominational Choir, co-founded by Francisco (Frank) A. Haye, Jr., at Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon Street (between Court and Adam Streets), Brooklyn, New York [...]
TBGB reviewed George Moss' single, "Go Hard or Go Home," in March. Now Dreamlight Entertainment announces the release of the original music video of “Go Hard or Go Home." The Grand Rapids-based Moss played a large part in writing, producing and directing the video, which premiered on Rapzilla (www.rapzilla.com) Tuesday, [...]
"My Momma Song"Cadillac JamesGospel artists have delivered more odes to mother than have been heard since the Victorian era. Praying mothers, singing mothers, shouting mothers, dying mothers. Even the absence of the family matriarch (aka "Motherless Child") is a cause for tuneful remembrance."Cadillac James" Cotton of the famed Cotton Brothers [...]
Dr. W.L. Mobley, Sr. and the Gospel Truth ChoirGive Me the Gospel Truth(private press) 2008Dr. Wealthy L. Mobley is my newest role model for healthy living.At 89, Mobley is fit and trim, looking like he's preparing for the Olympics. He runs a successful church on Chicago’s far south side, sings, [...]
West coast quartetter Roy Tyler is no stranger to The Black Gospel Blog. Tyler sent us a video from the October 2009 Mill Valley (California) Film Festival, on which he leads New Direction on "A Better Home." It's a song he recorded back in the day with the Gospel Humming [...]
“Still Got Work”Totally DedicatedFrom the forthcoming album QuarTemporarywww.totallydedicated.netQuarTemporary. The title of Totally Dedicated’s forthcoming album describes the group’s sound perfectly (and it's a better term than "ConTet"). The group's latest single, “Still Got Work,” offers the vocal smoothness of the Christianaires, but with a funkier beat and a more soulful [...]
Pastor Ray Berryhill & the Evangel Celebration ChoirCelebration Live, Volumes One and Twowww.evangelchicago.orgOh, if only every church had a choir like the Evangel Celebration Choir.Listening to Celebration Live, two privately-pressed CDs by Evangel World Outreach Center on Chicago’s north side, it’s no surprise that the Evangel Celebration Choir was selected [...]
Many know the name Margaret Aikens from her songwriting ("Stranger in Galilee," "Brighter Days Ahead," "Thy Grace is Sufficient for Me"); her publishing work with Ollie Lafayette (Aikens and Lafayette); her record label (Mag-Oll); or her singing (Ladies of Song, Meltones). Margaret was a Chicago mover and shaker who moved [...]
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