From www.businesswire.com:SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GRAMMY®-winning artists Edwin and Walter Hawkins, five-time GRAMMY winner Sandi Patty, and five-time GRAMMY-winning group the Winans will be recipients of the President's Merit Award at the 2008 GRAMMY Salute To Gospel Music® event in Washington, D.C., it was announced today by The Recording Academy®.In continuing [...]
Thy Kingdom ComeCeCe WinansPure Springs Gospel 2008www.cecewinans.comThis has definitely been a championship season for the Winans Family. The Clarks may have swept this year’s Stellars, but fellow Detroiters the Winans have been making their own joyful noise. First, Marvin’s Alone But Not Alone debuted on Billboard’s gospel charts at #1, [...]
This year's Chicago Gospel Fest features a strong program on all three days -- Friday, May 30 through Sunday, June 1. Some quick tidbits from your friendly neighborhood gospel historian...Friday:"Gospel's Next Showcase," hosted by Percy Bady, features the soloists on Bady's hit single "Wonderful Life."Saturday:Valencia Lacy is the soloist who [...]
The gospel and jazz worlds lost one of their most brilliant producers. Ozzie Cadena, who produced recordings for gospel artists on the Savoy and Choice imprints, died Wednesday, April 9, in Torrance, California, his family by his side. He was 83. Here is the article from LAist: Oscar "Ozzie" Cadena [...]
Love Forever ShinesRegina BellePendulum Records 2008www.myspace.com/reginab17The first time I heard Regina Belle sing was in a duet with Peabo Bryson, but her musical resume extends well beyond that. Whether duetting with male balladeers, studying opera, or performing jazz or RnB, the Rutgers graduate and New Jersey native never really strayed [...]
Click below to read a fine article in the Amherst Bulletin on gospel historian and artist Horace Clarence Boyer (article by Phyllis Lehrer; photo by Kevin Gutting).Horace Clarence Boyer
Tune to 88.7 WLUW Chicago Sunday morning, April 6, from 3:00 to 7:30 a.m. Central Time for this month’s live broadcast of “Gospel Memories” – the soundtrack to That Old Time Religion.Not in Chicago? No problem. Go to http://www.wluw.org/, click the Listen Live button, and enjoy “Gospel Memories” from wherever [...]
"Waging War”CeCe WinansFrom the CD Thy Kingdom ComePure Springs Gospel 2008http://www.cecewinans.com/Battle drums thump and strings swirl as if from the soundtrack of an epic film, providing an appropriately dramatic backdrop to CeCe Winans’ “Waging War,” the first single drawn from her new CD, Thy Kingdom Come. Winans sings the enemy [...]
A red carpet led to the door of Bishop Larry D. Trotter’s Sweet Holy Spirit Church on Chicago’s southeast side Friday night, March 28. The living legends walking along the red carpet, bathed in the glow of rotating searchlights, represented some of the finest and most significant artists in gospel [...]
From Dennis Cole:The Gospel Music According to Chicago (“GMAC”) announces the passing of one of its Board Members, Dr. Robert E. Wooten, Sr. (Thursday morning, March 27, 2008). GMAC extends it’s love to Robert E. “Bobby” Wooten, Jr. (Executive Board Member & Music Committee Member), Carol “Wooten (GMAC Mass Choir [...]
