“If God Has a Face”Zacardi Cortez feat. John Legend and ScarfaceFrom the forthcoming Black Smoke Media CD CoCo Brother Presents Gospel Mix Vol. V (street date: September 27, 2011)Zacardi Cortez, who sang the lid off of Andrae Crouch’s “The Blood” on James Fortune and FIYA's The Transformation, teams with pop [...]
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog. Syreeta Thompson is in a class by herself. Literally. The Chicago-born artist is the only female gospel singer who plays trumpet. Even the trumpets she carries are distinctive: one is white, the other red. Syreeta picked up the trumpet at age twelve, she [...]
Deitrick HaddonAnthology: The Writer and His MusicTyscot Records (street date: August 23, 2011)http://www.tyscot.com/Deitrick Haddon is among a legion of fellow Detroit artists – starting with the Rance Allen Group in 1970 and including the Winans and Moss-Clark Families and wife Damita Haddon – who have ensured that gospel music remains in synch [...]
“Jesus Said”LaShell GriffinDetroiter LaShell Griffin’s newest single, “Jesus Said,” is a catchy, shoulder-moving inspirational lesson sung from Jesus’s perspective. Regardless of one’s problems, the song says, He’ll be right there. As LaShell shouts in her open-throated gospel voice, “Bring it on to me and you’ll never have to worry…you’ll never [...]
“Keep it 100”F1 DiamondFrom the forthcoming CD LIFEMUSIC (2011)[email protected] his talent of rhyme and beat, the Pastor of the Traphouse encourages everyone to keep it real with God, because 99 ½ won’t do. “Keep it 100,” produced by the Beat Brokers Network, is part autobiographical, part warning, and a natural [...]
Norman ThomasOverture (EP)From Hamden, Connecticut, Norman Thomas is in the category of earnest young male gospel singers (Jack Yates and Todd Dulaney also come to mind) whose genuine feelings for God are audible in the authenticity of their crystal-clear voices and lyric delivery.On his EP Overture, released mid-June, Thomas teamed [...]
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.So sang the three remaining Barrett Sisters -- Rhodessa Porter, Billie Greenbey and Tina Brown -- to their sister, friend and singing partner DeLois Barrett Campbell at her funeral yesterday evening. DeLois Barrett Campbell, a member of the Roberta Martin Singers and Barrett Sisters, died August 2 [...]
J. FrazeBrighter DaysBeech Street Records (2010)[email protected] his CD Brighter Days, Johnathan Frazier (aka J. Fraze – the Minister of Praise) provides the first gospel house version of “Amazing Grace” that TBGB has ever heard. But it's an appropriate selection, since the grace of God turning bad days into brighter days [...]
“He Didn’t Have to Do It”Carla Tolbert TaylorFrom the EP He Didn’t Have to Do ItAvailable at http://www.cduniverse.com/Memphian Carla Tolbert Taylor and her background vocalists put on their shouting shoes and offer up some good old-fashioned church on “Didn’t Have to Do It.” It is, for all intents and purposes, [...]
You know a program is going to be anointed when even the opening performers are slain in the spirit.That’s what happened Saturday, August 6, at “Gospel Explosion ’11” at New Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Gary, Indiana. TBGB’s Bob Marovich had the honor of being a host presenter alongside Gary’s masterful [...]
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