Gospel Music

Congratulations to Chicago's Brown Sisters! Their single, "Awesome God," is #15 on the Billboard Top Gospel Songs chart for the week of December 5, 2009.

ZiyonSimply Ziyon(private release) 2008www.myspace.com/ziyonofhoustontexasZiyon is a female group (Renee’ Clemons, Mykeshia Wiley, Jometra Pinesette and Sheila Chaptmon) that formed in March 2008 in Houston, Texas, a city with a rich gospel heritage that seems to be getting richer with every passing year. Clemons, the group’s manager, was once a vocalist [...]

Here's a marvelous and poignant story about Rev. Thomas Brown by Adam Taylor from www.delawareonline.com. Rev. Brown worked with many gospel and pop artists in his career. The photo shows Rev. Brown (left) with Motown's Berry Gordy and Diana Ross.Read more here: Rev. Thomas Brown.Photo Credit: Delaware Online/Rev. Thomas Brown

Bishop Gregory M. Davis, Sr.Let the Healing Begin III: My Change Has Come Greg Davis Ministries International 2009www.gregdavisministries.orgLet the Healing Begin III: My Change Has Come is the third installment of a compact disc series that intermixes singing and instrumentals with the spoken word message of Bishop Gregory M. Davis, [...]

“Celebrate”Dr. Jeff JacobsFrom the Global Gospel CD He’s Just Alright (2009)Songwriter, recording artist and music minister Dr. Jeff Jacobs of Baltimore is a veteran of the gospel music scene, having written his first song more than thirty years ago. Since then, his compositions have been performed by some of the [...]

Various ArtistsNuggets of the Golden Age of GospelJSP Records 2009www.jsprecords.comHallelujah! 'Tis the season for new multi-CD vintage gospel music collections. In addition to Mike McGonigal’s raw and earthy Fire in My Bones, we now have Nuggets of the Golden Age of Gospel. Nuggets is a 4-CD, 105 track collection of [...]

Gospel singers have graced the stages of New York’s austere music halls since Mahalia Jackson first appeared at Carnegie Hall in 1950. On Friday and Saturday, December 11 and 12, gospel powerhouse Kim Burrell will continue the tradition by presenting "Kim Burrell - A Gospel Christmas," at New York's famed [...]

“This Far” Half Mile HomeFrom the forthcoming CD Change My Lyfe (release date: February 2, 2010)God Made Millionaires 2009From gospel to urban (as After the Rain) and back again but hanging on to their street-cred names, the Northeast Ohio-based urban male gospel group Half Mile Home released the high-powered “This [...]

WLUW-FM, the home of "Gospel Memories," has been nominated for "BEST COLLEGE/PUBLIC RADIO STATION IN CHICAGO" for the 29th Annual Chicago Music Awards.About the Chicago Music Awards:"Chicago, once the Mecca for the music industry has always been a prime location for world-class entertainment. Theater, dance, film, music as well as [...]