Nominations were announced today for the 49th annual Grammy Awards. Below are some of the gospel artists, songs, and recordings up for nomination. The Recording Academy will award the Grammys on Sunday, February 11, 2007. Congratulations to everyone who was nominated!Best Gospel Performance(For solo, duo, group as collaborative performances. Singles [...]
“Sunnyside Up”Yvonne BurgessFrom the CD Sunnyside UpMelodies Christian Recording 2006http://www.melodiesrecording.com/Yvonne Burgess certainly knows how to turn a lyric. Her CD Sunnyside Up is chock full of everyday lessons, each delivered in five minutes or less. On the title track, she even uses the humble egg as a life metaphor: “Ask [...]
This Is Who I AmKelly PriceZomba Gospel 2006http://www.kellyprice.com/The gorgeous platinum selling RnB composer and songstress who introduced the blockbuster RnB smash “Friend of Mine” in 1998 is really a PK (preacher’s kid) at heart. Kelly Price grew up in the Church of God in Christ and celebrates her holiness roots [...]
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CD Single Review:“Trouble”Willie Cleveland2006(662) 455-9653Greenwood, Mississippi’s Willie Cleveland, who incidentally bears a striking resemblance to a certain square-jawed gospel music legend whose surname he shares, waxes retro on “Trouble.” The single is an alchemy of 80s arrangement and 70s beat that will please southern radio listeners and leave gospel funk [...]
CD Review: husband Aliia Fairy VIPThe Launch Out ProjectRev. Stefanie R. Minatee & Jubilation2006http://www.justjubilation.com/New Jersey’s Rev. Stefanie R. Minatee has been ministering through music professionally for more than 20 years. Her accomplishments shine through on her latest release, The Launch Out Project, with the critically-acclaimed choir Jubilation.Jubilation is a culturally-mixed [...]
Paved the WayThe CaravansMalaco 2006http://www.thecaravans.net/A reunion CD from the Caravans was inevitable. Albertina Walker, Dorothy Norwood, Inez Andrews and Delores Washington have been sighted singing together on several occasions in the past couple of years, delighting audiences and wrecking churches, just as they did for five decades.Recorded in Chicago at [...]
Watch the late Bob Washington and the Gospelaires of Dayton, Ohio perform an eight-minute live version of their classic 1961 hit, "Ride This Train," to a 1960s-era festival crowd. At one point, Washington tosses off his jacket and works an awed crowd, shaking hands, throwing shapes, confounding the camerapeople, and [...]
CD Review:We Won’t Be Silent AnymoreBishop Yvette Flunder & the Fellowship Mass ChoirCommitted Records 2006http://www.radicallyinclusive.com/Bishop Yvette Flunder teamed up with five Bay Area churches’ worth of strong voices for her first recording, We Won’t Be Silent Anymore. And if the mass choir by itself wasn’t enough to raise the church [...]
Hello, gospel mavens -- the next broadcast of "Gospel Memories" will be Sunday, November 5 from 3:00 to 7:30 a.m. Central Time on Chicago's 88.7 WLUW (live webcast on www.wluw.org).Highlights of the November 5 Broadcast:-- They sang gospel before they sang RnB: in the 1980s, K-Ci and JoJo were members [...]
