Gospel Music Fever reports that Maggie Ingram, the "Gospel Queen of Richmond" and leader of the Ingramettes family gospel group, has died. With the Six Trumpets, Ingram made an auspicious recording debut in 1961 singing the Christmas song, "Jesus Christ the Baby." It was a radio hit and propelled Ingram into the [...]
The June 20, 2015 episode of Gospel Memories on WLUW Chicago includes a long set in memory of the victims and their families, and all the members of Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Gospel music helps us mourn, helps us heal, helps us remember. May this kind of tragedy [...]
Airing from 1963 to 1984, Jubilee Showcase was the longest running gospel music television show before BET's Bobby Jones Gospel. Every week, host Sid Ordower introduced television audiences of all races and creeds to the era's gospel stars. Offering "music that both entertains and inspires," as Ordower announced at the [...]
DALLAS (June 9, 2015) - Grammy Award® Nominee Tamela Mann is the first Gospel lead artist in Billboard Gospel Radio chart history to score three consecutive No. 1's from an album. Her current single, "This Place," is the third song to ascend to No. 1 from her Tillymann Entertainment CD, [...]
Check out this wonderful article written by Peter Margasak about JGM's Bob Marovich. Peter tells my story far better than I could ever tell it myself! http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/bob-robert-marovich-city-called-heaven-gospel-book-festival/Content?oid=17800579
Photo Credit: Facebook By Bob Marovich JGM is saddened to report that Dr. Clarence "Mr. Gospel" Eggleton has died. A Bay Area resident, Eggleton taught, sang, directed, played piano, and was a gifted composer of more than 500 songs recorded by some of the gospel industry's top artists, [...]
Photo Credit: Detroit Free Press Detroit gospel historian Marcel West informed JGM that R&B and gospel singer Ortheia Barnes-Kennerly has died. Our sincerest sympathies to her family and friends. Read the Detroit Free Press story below: http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2015/05/15/ortheia-barnes-kennerly-obituary/27409865/
Lockhart Singers. Aldrea Sanford Lenox is in the middle, top row. JGM learned today of the passing of Aldrea Sanford Lenox. Aldrea was a member of the Lockhart Singers of Chicago, the Thompson Community Singers, the Dorothy Norwood Singers, and the Jessy Dixon Singers. Her husband, the late [...]
BET's Bobby Jones Gospel, the longest-running gospel music variety program on television and the longest-running original series on cable television, will mark its final episode this year. Ambassador Dr. Bobby Jones is to be highly commended because no other modern show has done so much to showcase independent and major [...]
The Journal of Gospel Music was saddened to learn of the passing of Mother Alva Johnson Roberts, who transitioned from labor to reward on April 18. She was 101 years old. Mother Roberts was the first lady of "Brother" Isaiah Roberts, noted Church of God in Christ pastor, popular radio announcer, [...]
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