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“Get Up”GIFrom the group’s forthcoming album, scheduled for release April 7, 2009www.gods-image.com“Get Up” is a bright and bouncy wake-up call to arise, shake off the winter doldrums and its emotional residue, and get your praise on. It’s a new day. The spirit is moving. Change is in the air. “Get [...]

From Dennis Cole, President of the Chicago Area Gospel Announcers Guild:Our office was informed today of the homegoing of gospel great Ethel Holloway. She passed at the Alden Manner Nursing Home on Austin, in Chicago.Ethel is known/loved all over the world through her travels with the Jessy Dixon Singers, the [...]

From gospel quartet expert Min. Donnie Addison:It is with sadness that I report the loss of another Quartet Music Pioneer. As we all know, New York was a hotbed for quartet gospel in the 1950s and 1960s. One of the great groups to rise to prominence was The Mighty Gospel [...]

Curley L. JonesLet’s Get ExcitedSelf-produced 2007(203) 507-3661I tried to get excited about gospel singer-songwriter Curley L. Jones’ Let’s Get Excited. I even listened to it twice to see if it was just my mood getting in the way (it’s the dead of winter, and I live in Chicago), but no [...]

TBGB: At the Stellar Awards taping last weekend, it was noted during a special tribute to Rev. Timothy Wright that the pastor and singer's health had recently taken a turn for the worse. Here's an update, as reported by The Belle Report's Sheilah Belle (1/25/09):The Rev. Timothy Wright, the Grammy-nominated [...]

Hazel Henderson, 79, pianist and composer of gospel musicShe worked for the city of Long Beach as a librarian for years, but her passion was writing, arranging and composing music.By Pamela Hale-Burns, Staff Writer Press-Telegram of Long Beach, CAJanuary 22, 2009Music was her life, and Hazel Henderson showed it by [...]

Perfect PeaceJesus is a Sure ThingSelf-produced 2006(256) 329-2258Husband and wife gospel singing duos have been active at least since the 1920s. Prominent examples include Memphis evangelists A.C. and Mamie Forehand, who recorded “Honey in the Rock” (Victor, 1927), complete with Mrs. Forehand’s ringing finger cymbal percussion. William and Versey Smith’s [...]

Phil TarverDraw NearerKingdom Records 2006www.kingdomrecordsinc.comOn his solo project, Draw Nearer, praise and worship meister Phil Tarver offers up more of the graceful songs with simple melodies and singable lyrics that have transformed Shekinah Glory Ministry from a church-based troupe into a Stellar Award-winning recording artist.Recorded on Watch Night 2006 and [...]

“I Wish”Heather HeadleyFrom the EMI Gospel CD Audience of Onewww.emigospel.comThis may seem a little early to predict, especially since her “Jesus Is Love” with Smokie Norful is the current chart riser, but Heather Headley’s “I Wish” has the potential to be one of the top inspirational songs of 2009. Shoot, [...]