JGM Pick of the Week: February 7, 2023
“He Brought Me Out” Quinten Simon Independent (release date: January 20, 2023)
“He Brought Me Out” Quinten Simon Independent (release date: January 20, 2023)
“Speak to the Mountain” Angela Moss Poole 141st Lane Music/DarkChild Gospel (2022)
The Gift and the Calling 3 is the finale of Christian hip hop artist Jarred AllStar’s The Gift and the Calling Series, which began in 2020.
“One Step Closer” DiVine of Annapolis From the CD One Step Closer (release date: September 20, 2022)
Chicago-based gospel music collector Marc Davis collaborated with Sadar Bahar and recording engineer Tone B. Nimble to inject a disco beat into the Fountain of Life Joy Choir’s “I’m So Happy.”
On her latest solo album, Hold It All Together, Destiny Adia Andrews, known as Adia, sings in a tranquil, conspiratorial voice, as if holding a prayer meeting with a few friends in a tiny room with the lights out and candles burning.
“He’ll Make It Alright” Julius Pearson & the Gospel Chorale of Chicago Enchanted Media Group
Although on her latest selection, “Don’t Leave Me Jesus,” Lady Voncile Belcher pleads with Jesus to not leave her “in this barren land,” she knows he won’t. Quoting from “No Ways Tired,” she and her background vocalists sing: “he didn’t bring me this far to leave me.”
“All Things Are Working” Joe Pace feat. Callie Day Pace Music Group (release date: November 18, 2022)
To give their “Don’t Forget You’re a Child of God” an authentic touch, the gospel band Out of the Whirlwind recruited the Workstudy Performing Arts Choir, a children’s choir out of Matteson, Illinois, to sing with them. And the children deliver.