Macey J. WrightThe InterventionWrightway Ministries (2011)http://www.maceywrightintervention2k10.com/Youthful, smart, pleasant and accessible are words that come to mind for describing Macey J. Wright’s The Intervention. It’s a fine debut for a talented and creative artist.Brooklyn-born but now living in Orlando, Wright leads The Intervention with the neo-soul brightness of Leah Smith, the smarts of [...]
Bobby Perry and RAINConquerorsSolaria Records (release date: June 21, 2011)http://www.bobbyperryonline.com/Bishop Robert C. “Bobby” Perry II is pastor of The Kingdom Church in Boston, and RAIN (Royal Agents Influencing Nations) is his gospel singing group. Conquerors is Bobby Perry and RAIN's sophomore release.The title track, which features a guest lead by Natalie [...]
“Liberation” AlkendriaFrom the forthcoming SGR Music Group CD Liberation (in stores July 5, 2011)Houston’s Alkendria does her thing on a new, high-energy single.“Liberation” is a hands-in-the-air praise rave and appropriately so, given the lyrical salute to personal freedom. The song is about overcoming life’s obstacles on the way to spiritual emancipation [...]
“Life Line”Corey WebbFrom the forthcoming album Life Line (due March 2012)Single available on iTunesTop ten finalist on the first season of BET’s “Sunday Best,” Atlanta’s Corey Webb flexes his beseeching, urgent tenor on “Life Line,” a single that was selected for EMI’s Inspiration Jam Volume 3 and will become the title [...]
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog. TBGB had a chance to talk with, and learn more about, Christian rapper Tedashii, whose new release, Blacklight, is currently riding high at #2 on Billboard’s Top Gospel Albums chart. Originally from Houston, Tedashii Anderson was born to an African American mother and Samoan [...]
“Spiritual”Donald Lawrence & Co.From the forthcoming Verity CD YRM (Your Righteous Mind)http://www.verityrecords.com/Donald Lawrence is one of the managing architects of today’s contemporary gospel sound, striking chord after chord with modern churchgoers. The new single, “Spiritual,” is quintessentially Lawrence – the man conversing casually but declaratively with his Company in call-and-response [...]
The Dixie Hummingbirds and FriendsGospel Praise Songs – Powered by Quartets (2011)For information, contact Ms. LaDeva Davis: (267) 918-2814By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.The Dixie Hummingbirds have the distinction of being one of the longest-running quartets on the gospel highway. For 83 years.“The Gentlemen of Song” came together for [...]
Marcel West and Etta Hixon Laryea told TBGB that there will be a musical appreciation for Sister Frances Chandler.The program will be Saturday, July 9 at 5:00 p.m. at Bibleway Temple for Better Living, 2995 Joy Road, Detroit. The late Rev. Charles B. Ransom, founder; Rev. Mother Lubertha Potts, pastor.Sis. [...]
The Chicago Gospel Music Heritage Museum announced that it has received a $5,000 grant from the Illinois Humanities Council to host the first-ever “Chicago’s Living Legends of Gospel Roundtable Series.” Held quarterly beginning in June 2011, Chicago’s Living Legends of Gospel Roundtable Series will be a quarterly cycle of conversations with [...]
Special thanks to Ms. Letitia Scott, Visionary/Publisher of Testimony, for featuring TBGB's Founder and Editor-in-Chief in the magazine's May/June 2011 issue. The article, "The Gospel Soul Child," is a brief history of how TBGB and the "Gospel Memories" radio program came into existence.Learn more about Testimony Magazine at http://www.testimonyedition.org/.
