From Sounds of Inspirationby Effie RolfePublished in the Chicago DefenderApril 28, 2006Jessy Dixon presents Liberty Baptist and Friends in a Live TV Taping on Sunday at 3:00 p.m. The legendary singer Dixon started his career singing and playing with Rev Milton Brunson and the Thompson Community Singers. Reflecting on the [...]
“Use Me, Lord”Drinkard SingersFrom A Joyful Noise RCA Victor LSP-18561958American music owes an enormous debt of gratitude to the Drinkard Family for nurturing the musical talent of its kinfolk Dee Dee and Dionne Warwick, Cissy Houston and her daughter Whitney, and adopted daughter Judy (Guions) Clay. Imagining how popular music [...]
From a Malaco Records press release:Jackson, MS. April 25, 2006-The Malaco Music Group is proud to announce the appointing of D.A. Johnson to the newly vacated post of Executive Director of its Gospel Division. The position, formerly held by Jerry Mannery, is a natural step up for Johnson, who has [...]
From a press release by OwensMorris Communications:CHICAGO – OwensMorris Communications announced today that Jerry Mannery will join the marketing communications agency on May 1 as Client Service Director, Entertainment Marketing Division. Mannery will provide grassroots and entertainment marketing services for the agency’s clients including TV One, ExxonMobil and Darden Restaurants. [...]
TBGB learned from Tony Heilbut, who heard from Roberta Martin Singer Eugene Smith, that Sister Irma Gwynn passed away this morning, April 23. Gwynn was a featured soloist with Chicago's famed First Church of Deliverance choir and was featured on Heilbut's All God's Sons and Daughters album on Spirit Feel. [...]
No Limits…LiveMartha MunizziIntegrity/Columbia 2006www.marthamunizzi.comMartha Munizzi has gone from the hottest blue-eyed gospel singer on the circuit (one of the finest since Gene Viale) to one of the hottest gospel singers, period. Having watched the Florida-based performer work her magic at the Chicago Gospel Fest a couple of years ago, I [...]
"Follow Me"VirtueFrom the forthcoming CD TestimonyIntegrity Gospel 2006www.integritygospel.comWith nearly ten years of recording and a handful of albums under its belt to show for it, the female ensemble Virtue -- gospel music's answer to Destiny's Child -- is set to release its sixth project, Testimony, this June. "Follow Me," an [...]
Believe in Your DreamsVashawn MitchellTyscot 2005www.tyscot.comIf the walls of Bishop Larry Trotter’s Sweet Holy Spirit Church on Chicago’s southeast side could talk, they’d sing. And shout. Sweet Holy Spirit has hosted many of the city’s – and the country’s – finest gospel programs and performances. Several artists have also employed [...]
From The Belle Report: Mills River, NC - Grace Community Church in Mills River and Greater New Zion Baptist Church in Fletcher are sponsoring a benefit concert next month featuring four-time Grammy-winning artists the Blind Boys of Alabama.The proceeds of the May 4 concert will be split between Desire Street [...]
“If My People”Donny JonesFrom the album The ReactionDamazing Works 2006www.myspace.com/damazingworksFrom the Forties to the Seventies, gospel music had a more powerful social conscience and sense of history than it does today. Quartets in particular sang about the derring-do of African-American heroes such as Mary McLeod Bethune and Dory Miller, and [...]
