Gospel announcer Vee Edwards spins gospel music from independent artists and interviews gospel legends such as Inez Andrews and Dorothy Norwood on "Gospel Music at Its Best," WYCB Spirit 1340. Listen live March 28, 2012 as Vee interviews the Soul Messengerz, a group signed recently by Malaco Records: http://www.myspiritdc.com/.
“Awesome”Pastor Charles Jenkins & the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church ChoirFrom the forthcoming CD: Pastor Charles Jenkins Presents Fellowship Chicago Livewww.fellowshipchicagomusic.comIt couldn’t have been easy for Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church Senior Pastor Charles Jenkins to step into the shoes of the Chicago church’s iconic founder, pastor and Civil Rights leader Rev. [...]
“I Am God”Cynthia SimonsFrom the CD ThankfulWhen singer, songwriter and actress Cynthia Simons sings that God is a healer, she has the testimony to reinforce her belief.Simons, who has shared the stage with gospel icons such as Rev. James Cleveland, Fred Hammond, Shirley Caesar and Walter Hawkins, is a twenty-year [...]
Dr. Claybon Lea, Jr.It’s About Time4 Leavites Entertainment Group (2011)www.claybonlea.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.It’s About Time is a great tongue-in-cheek title for a debut CD, especially for an artist such as Dr. Claybon Lea, Jr., who until now had set aside his solo singing career in favor [...]
Don Byron New Gospel QuintetLove, Peace, and SoulSavoy Jazz (2012)http://www.donbyron.com/By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Jazz and gospel music are only a razor-thin line away from one another musically. At least they used to be. They were during the era of Thomas A. Dorsey and Roberta Martin. That is [...]
Andrea HelmsMoving ForwardMusic World Gospel (2012)www.musicworldgospel.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Moving Forward is the seven-track debut CD of BET Sunday Best Season 4 first runner-up Andrea Helms. Produced by H. Doobie Powell and released earlier this month, the album is a compilation of the contemporary gospel and P&W [...]
Congratulations to the McDonald Sisters, who recently won the Blockbuster Gold Cup Award at the Florence Civic Center on March 9, 2012! The group has also been asked to be a special guest for the 50th Birthday Celebration of Cedric Bailey of Rejoice Musical Soulfood.
“We Worship You”Cheneta JonesFrom the forthcoming CD Transformed (release date: May 22, 2012)www.realtalentmg.com“We Worship You” is another quietly breezy and melodic urban P&W single from Cheneta Jones, the emerging gospel singer-songwriter from St. Louis who some may know from her role as lead background singer for Tye Tribbett. To rumbling [...]
“One”Take 6From the Shanachie Entertainment CD One (2012)http://www.shanachie.com/Gymnastic. Youthful. Complex. Rhythmic. Playful. These are just a few descriptors for the iconic harmonies of Take 6, but let's face it: you know them when you hear them. Or, to borrow one of the group's metaphors from its new gospel single, “One:” “I don’t know [...]
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