Lizz WrightFellowshipVerve Music Group 2010http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/Growing up in Georgia, jazz singer Lizz Wright (Salt, Dreaming Wide Awake) grew up the daughter of a minister and sang gospel. No surprise, then, that on her exquisite new gospel-centric CD, Fellowship, Wright sounds like she’s been singing the glory down since birth. She has.Wright gathers a deliciously [...]
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Imagine the scene, if you will...You are in Florida, out in the country. A mother is busy hanging the family’s clothes on the line to dry. Her young daughter is singing in the yard, the grass her captive audience, leaves swaying in the spirit.Unbeknownst [...]
“Pulling Me Through”Todd DulaneyGoldstreet Gospel Music 2010“Pulling Me Through” is a CCR-flavored praise anthem and testimony from Todd Dulaney, a former professional baseball player who grew up in Maywood, Illinois and eventually discovered his calling was to hit home runs for the Kingdom, not the Mets.Dulaney served as a background [...]
Dennis Cole of the Chicago Area Gospel Announcers Guild informed us today that Mrs. Frances Wooten passed away. She is the mother of gospel producer Bobby Wooten and wife to the late Dr. Robert Wooten, who founded the Wooten Choral Ensemble.TBGB extends its heartfelt sympathies to this wonderful family during their [...]
Kim PersonSpeak LifeKLP Enterprises, LLC (2010)http://www.kimperson.org/Kim Person is a gospel singer from North Carolina, and she possesses that distinctive amalgam of singer, performer, evangelist, witness, prophet, encourager and comforter that talented female gospel singers have. All of these traits, of course, are best exercised – and best witnessed – in live performance. Person's [...]
“He Reigns”Pastor Ira Acree & the Greater St. John Church ChoirFrom the CD Glorify (2010)Pastor Ira Acree & the Greater St. John Church Choir demonstrate that not all Chicago gospel choirs sing in the old time way. At least, not always. On “He Reigns,” written and produced by the astutely [...]
From a press release:The must see faith-based independent film of the season for all movie-goers interested in family friendly entertainment is the musical, Church, an inspiring story of faith, redemption and forgiveness.Based on the play Sunday, the Musical, Church chronicles the everyday experiences in today’s African American church. Produced by [...]
“Touched by a Rose”JAIALynda Knox and Lisa Davis, better known as the sweet singing gospel duo JAIA, pay tribute to Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe of Uganda in a special single recorded a few weeks ago in Nashville. Community crusader Sister Rosemary is director of the St. Monica Girls Tailoring Centre in [...]
Evelyn Turrentine-AgeeThere’s Gonna Be a Meeting (release date: September 28, 2010)Shanachie 2010www.shanachie.com“Give me that old key,” a female voice drawls. An open chord is plucked note for note on an electric guitar, in the fashion of the Golden Age quartets. It’s the cue for that female voice, belonging to Stellar [...]
“Isaiah 61”Judy JacobsFrom the forthcoming CD/DVD I Feel a Change (to be released Fall 2010)His Song Ministries 2010http://www.judyjacobs.com/Judy Jacobs dons the cloak of a singing prophet and commands the congregation, by paraphrasing Isaiah 61, to “be ready” because “this is the day for your miracle…the hour of your breakthrough.” The dramatic, [...]
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