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“We Sound Crazy” Show Set to Premiere on Howard University Radio Network February 17
We Sound Crazy’s premiere broadcast will air Friday, February 17 at 8PM EST, followed by weekly airings Mondays and Fridays at 8PM EST.
Marvin Sapp Accepting Song Submissions
Praise & Worship Songwriters - here's your chance!
National Museum of Gospel Music Hosts “Voices of Celebration & Thanks” December 10
The National Museum of Gospel Music and Pilgrim Baptist Church invite you to join us for our holiday concert - VOICES OF CELEBRATION & THANKS 2022, hosted by your gospel sister Pam Morris!
Surprise Performance by R&B Legend Valerie Simpson Highlights Newark’s “Gospel In The Park”
NEWARK, NJ (August 8)— The 15th Anniversary Lincoln Park Music Festival, Newark NJ’s “best kept secret,” continues the city’s rich history of Gospel music in an outdoor “Black Church revival style” experience. The historic downtown neighborhood of Lincoln Park (named after President Lincoln in the 1800s), was home to Sarah Vaughan, who cut her singing chops at Mount Zion Baptist [...]
Never Would Have Made It: The Marvin Sapp Story
TV One Original Film Premieres Sunday, August 21st at 9/8c on TV One Never Would Have Made It: The Marvin Sapp Story Chaz Lamar Shepherd (“Marvel’s Luke Cage”, “The Game”) will star as Marvin Sapp with Ambre Anderson (“Power Book II” “Manifest Evil”) joining him as Sapp’s wife, MaLinda Prince Sapp. The biopic chronicles the prominent gospel music artist and [...]
Jekalyn Carr Presented Key to the City
JULY 15, 2022 (Atlanta, GA) — Top-selling, popular Gospel star Jekalyn Carr was presented with the Key to the City, by City Commissioner, Natalie Hall last night, July 14, 2022, also proclaiming it “Jekalyn Carr Appreciation Day.” The event kicked off the exciting, events filled Stellar Awards Weekend in Atlanta. Last night, at the Bear Tag Entertainment celebrity basketball at [...]
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June 18, 2015 (Houston, TX) - Today it is Charleston, but in the last several months, it has been Ferguson, Cleveland, Staten Island, and so many others. There is a [...]
Airing from 1963 to 1984, Jubilee Showcase was the longest running gospel music television show before BET's Bobby Jones Gospel. Every week, host Sid Ordower introduced television audiences of all [...]
Historian and journalist Michael Corcoran uncovered a myriad of hitherto unknown facts about Texas pianist and Church of God in Christ member Arizona Dranes. Those findings were revealed in He [...]
DALLAS (June 9, 2015) - Grammy Award® Nominee Tamela Mann is the first Gospel lead artist in Billboard Gospel Radio chart history to score three consecutive No. 1's from an [...]
Check out this wonderful article written by Peter Margasak about JGM's Bob Marovich. Peter tells my story far better than I could ever tell it myself! http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/bob-robert-marovich-city-called-heaven-gospel-book-festival/Content?oid=17800579
KEM, Tye Tribbett, and Anita Wilson at Chicago Gospel Music Festival Preview yesterday. By Bob Marovich "The Bible says, 'Be fruitful and multiply,'" award-winning gospel artist Tye Tribbett [...]
From Christian artist Rachael Mann: "You can partner with us to take my new single "What Kind Of Love" to national Christian radio stations while also bringing awareness to human [...]
“A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music” Saturday, April 25 at 2pm Woodson Regional Library, Auditorium 9525 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL Book Discussion & Signing with [...]
allAfrica: African news and information for a global audience via allAfrica.com: Namibia: Gospel Queen, Rebecca Malope, to Lead the Pack MTC Gospel Concert.
Columbia, MD - Habakkuk Music has announced a historic partnership with Central City Productions to release a special compilation album celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Stellar Gospel Music Awards. [...]
Click on the link below to read a fascinating story about Warren Shadd and the trials he has endured as a pianist and piano-maker. America's Only Black Piano-Maker Soldiers on [...]
From a press release: Bill Duke (left) brings his years of talent and experience to direct and executive produce The Mahalia Jackson Story, a music biopic chronicling the life of [...]
Wisconsin Public Radio's Rob Ferrett and Veronica Rueckert interviewed Journal of Gospel Music's Bob Marovich on Tuesday, February 24, about gospel music's Midwestern roots and how it supplied the soundtrack to [...]
JGM Editor-in-Chief Bob Marovich was interviewed for this podcast on gospel music and the Civil Rights movement. Professor Robert Darden of Baylor University, Dwandalyn Reese of the Smithsonian Institution, and [...]
Civil-rights soundtrack still on freedom highway - Fredericksburg.com: Music.
An interesting perspective on the Grammys' Beyonce-"Precious Lord" controversy. Read Kevin Cokley's article in American Prospect by clicking below: Beyoncé Misses the Point of What Gospel Music Means to Black [...]
Professor Brooksie Harrington of Fayetteville State University has written on the life and career of Pastor Shirley Caesar. He was featured recently in this Fayobserver.com piece by Michael Futch. Click here [...]
WYSO's Pam Ferris-Olson writes about Paul Arnold, lead singer for the Gospelaires of Dayton, Ohio. Arnold was honored posthumously with a star on the Dayton Walk of Fame. Read the article [...]
Click below to read the story. Keepers of history: Music that tells the African-American story - Fayetteville Observer: Living.
JGM's editor-in-chief Bob Marovich and Professor Robert Darden of Baylor University were interviewed for this Baltimore Sun article by columnist Dan Rodricks about the elusive Mighty Wonders of Aquasco, Maryland. [...]
Click below to read the article and see the video: Gospel Artist Ricky Dillard Nominated For 10 Stellar Music Awards | News One.
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