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Fifty Something Records and Lrae Entertainment® Sign NBC’s The Voice Top 8 Standout Alum Justin Aaron To Their Record Label Collaboration
Jim Vierra and Dr. Earl Bynum announced today that they have signed their first artist, NBC's The Voice Top 8 standout alum Justin Aaron, to their label partnership.
The Alliance Of Gospel Music Professionals To Host Inaugural Alliance at 2025 GMWA in Montgomery, AL
The GMWA will host its 58th Annual Convention in Montgomery, AL, July 13-18. During the convention, The Alliance will hold its sessions and the Inaugural Alliance Chairman Honors Awards Banquet.
Documentary on Archbishop Carl Bean to Premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival
I am proud to serve as a contributing producer to this documentary on the life of Archbishop Carl Bean. In 1977, Archbishop Carl Bean made history by recording his disco hit “I Was Born this Way,” celebrated as the world’s first gay anthem, and setting the stage for a revolution in queer music. All-star interviews with Lady Gaga, Questlove, Billy [...]
Rare Helen Hollins & Bishop Hollins Sr. Release on Good Friday
From Alicia Hollins and Innovative Holding Partners: My family is absolutely thrilled about the Good Friday release of a very special recording: "Thy Will" by the legendary Helen Hollins featuring Bishop Milton Hollins Sr. Even more exciting, we're building the official Helen Hollins YouTube channel where you'll get access to all the new releases, behind-the-scenes stories, interviews with special guests, [...]
The Boys are Back in Town! Blind Boys of Alabama In Chicago to Play New Venue
On Sunday, March 30, 2025, the multi-GRAMMY Award-winning Blind Boys of Alabama will be among the earliest artists to appear at Garcia’s Chicago in the city's West Loop.
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By Bob Marovich The gospel music world mourns the passing of Mrs. Jodi Litmon, an independent gospel artist from Cincinnati, Ohio, who recently racked up six nominations for the 2016 [...]
By Bob Marovich As is our custom for this time of year, the Journal of Gospel Music presents its "best of" lists in the category of CDs, songs, and historical [...]
The nominations in the Gospel and Contemporary Christian Music categories (#36-40) for the 58th GRAMMY Awards were announced, and they are as follows: 36. Best Gospel Performance/Song Worth [Live] – [...]
Journal of Gospel Music Editor-in-Chief Bob Marovich (pictured, left), discussed his book, A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music (University of Illinois Press), with radio legend Milt Rosenberg (center) on [...]
From a press release: Grammy Award winner Tye Tribbett’s cousin Corey Jones, a drummer, was on his way home from a concert gig when he experienced SUV trouble in the [...]
By Bob Marovich From 1963 to 1984, the Emmy Award-winning television program Jubilee Showcase brought the nation's greatest gospel singers and groups into living rooms throughout Chicagoland. Every Sunday morning, [...]
When Art Rupe of Specialty Records recorded the July 22, 1955, gospel program at Los Angeles's Shrine Auditorium, he was making history. It would be the first multi-artist gospel program [...]
Read Keith Alexander's article in the Washington Post here: Richard Smallwood
PRESS RELEASE: The June 17th Charleston Church Massacre has prompted Grammy Award winning recording artist Tye Tribbett to launch a “Hate Won’t Win” concert to benefit the families of the [...]
(BOISE, Idaho) -- Christian music's largest site online, NewReleaseTuesday.com, got its name from the day new music releases in the U.S. But with the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's [...]
Maggie Ingram, a legendary gospel singer from Virginia, passed away this week. Learn more about her in this excellent remembrance: http://wtvr.com/2015/06/24/what-gospel-legend-maggie-ingrams-daughter-would-like-us-to-remember-about-her-mother/
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 [...]
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