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From EURweb (www.eurweb.com):Grammy Award winning artists Edwin and Walker Hawkins, five-time Grammy Award winner Sandi Patty, and five-time Grammy Award winning group the Winans, will be the recipients of the President’s Merit Award at the 2008 Grammy Salute to Gospel Music. The event will be held tonight, June 18, at [...]

R U Willing?Anita MylesYA Pro Productions 2007www.anitamyles.comSinger/songwriter Anita Myles has more than a touch of jazz and RnB in her voice. She brings these musical sensibilities, and COGIC influences (including work with the Edwin Hawkins Youth and Young Adult Mass Choir), to bear on R U Willing?, her debut CD. [...]

"Mujje" ("The Invitation")Omega Bugembe OkelloFrom the CD Kiwomera EmmeemeComin Atcha Distribution Group 2008www.omegaworldmusic.comAn African Children's Choir alumna who has since earned her masters degree at Sarah Lawrence College and started her own record label, AlexOm Productions LLC, Ugandan singer Omega Bugembe Okello has produced Kiwomera Emmeeme (trans. "It is Sweet [...]

Trying to Get ReadyWings over JordanGospel Friend 2008www.gospelfriend.comAs a radio announcer who programs vintage gospel music, I can say from experience that I get more requests for the Swan Silvertones, Gospel Clefs and the Wings Over Jordan Choir than any other gospel groups. Fortunately, the Swans’ King, Specialty and Vee [...]

Family PrayerThe MurrillsQuietWater Entertainment/Verity/Zomba Gospel 2008www.zombalabelgroup.comSpeaking of singing families, here’s another: the Murrills of North Carolina, fresh from their tenure in Donald Lawrence’s multi-talented Tri-City Singers. Darwin, Damion, Donnell, Andre, Roger and Arnetta dropped their first single as a solo group, “Family (There’s a Healing)” to gospel radio last December [...]

BY JOHN SMYNTEK • DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • June 7, 2008WCHB-AM (1200) announced a format change, effective Monday, that eliminates its news and sports talk lineup except for its well-rated morning show, helmed by outspoken political commentator Mildred Gaddis. Among the weekday casualties are syndicated shows by Warren [...]

Gospel music is alive in Boston. Barely. Since the demise of WILD, the genre’s listeners and performers have had to find innovative ways to keep joyful noises on local airwaves. Read the complete text of Talia Whyte's interesting story for the Bay State Banner here.

She brought the world Kirk Franklin, Kurt Carr and Trin-i-tee 5:7.Yolanda Adams, BeBe & CeCe Winans, and Tramaine Hawkins have tapped into her keen marketing skills, and even before the sale of her label – GospoCentric Records – to Zomba two years ago, Vicki Mack Lataillade was considered the most [...]

The Barnes Family Reunion IIThe Barnes FamilyAIR Records/Malaco Records 2008http://www.malaco.com/Who springs immediately to mind when thinking about gospel singing families are Motor City dynasties the Moss/Clarks and the Winans Families, and the Bay Area’s famed Hawkins Family. But let us not forget about another popular singing family, the Barnes of [...]

In Our Own Words — The Negro Spirituals Heritage Keepers: Celebrate the Completion of Oakland’s First Negro Spirituals Oral HistoriesBy Lily Kharrazi, Living Cultures Grants Manager, Alliance for California Traditional ArtsSent to TBGB by Lyvonne Chrisman“What they did not know was that a people who could not write their own [...]