Photo Credit: Facebook By Bob Marovich JGM is saddened to report that Dr. Clarence "Mr. Gospel" Eggleton has died. A Bay Area resident, Eggleton taught, sang, directed, played piano, and was a gifted composer of more than 500 songs recorded by some of the gospel industry's top artists, [...]
Photo Credit: Detroit Free Press Detroit gospel historian Marcel West informed JGM that R&B and gospel singer Ortheia Barnes-Kennerly has died. Our sincerest sympathies to her family and friends. Read the Detroit Free Press story below: http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2015/05/15/ortheia-barnes-kennerly-obituary/27409865/
Lockhart Singers. Aldrea Sanford Lenox is in the middle, top row. JGM learned today of the passing of Aldrea Sanford Lenox. Aldrea was a member of the Lockhart Singers of Chicago, the Thompson Community Singers, the Dorothy Norwood Singers, and the Jessy Dixon Singers. Her husband, the late [...]
The Journal of Gospel Music was saddened to learn of the passing of Mother Alva Johnson Roberts, who transitioned from labor to reward on April 18. She was 101 years old. Mother Roberts was the first lady of "Brother" Isaiah Roberts, noted Church of God in Christ pastor, popular radio announcer, [...]
Marcel West of Detroit reported to the Journal of Gospel Music that Mr. Cleveland Cole, father-in-law of Dorinda Clark Cole and a musician in his own right, passed away Sunday morning. Marcel adds that Cole was the president of the famous Southwest Michigan State Choir of the Church of God [...]
The Duncanaires: Honey Sykes top row, second from left. I was so dismayed to hear that Delores "Honey" Sykes of the Duncanaires and Thompson Community Singers, has passed away. I spoke with her sometime last month and although she had been on dialysis for some time, there wasn't [...]
WASHINGTON, DC: Marsha D. Sumner, a native Washingtonian and celebrated local gospel radio announcer for two decades, died on Saturday, January 24, after a brief illness. She was 69. Sumner, who was born on April 20, 1945, attended DC public schools and graduated from Theodore Roosevelt Senior High School, where [...]
(LOS ANGELES, CA) -- A celebration of Andraé Crouch's life will take place on Tuesday, January 20th and Wednesday, January 21st at West Angeles Church of God In Christ, located at 3600 Crenshaw Blvd in Los Angeles, California. Both services will be open to the public. Tuesday, January 20, 2015 [...]
Please keep Vanessa Bell Armstrong and her family lifted in prayer. Madame Armstrong's mother passed in March and now we learn that her son Terrance passed away just hours ago. Thanks to Mona King Austin for sharing the news with Journal of Gospel Music. We extend our deepest sympathies to the [...]
Marcel West informed the Journal of Gospel Music that gospel singer Julia Mae Price-Williams died. A PK--her father pastored Second Baptist Church in Augusta--Miss Julia sang briefly with the Davis Sisters of Philadelphia and later the Caravans. She married Rev. Felton Williams Jr., and in 1981, while living in Baltimore, [...]
