Aaron Lavelle Signs Deal With TRIBL Records Ahead Of New Album “Crowned”
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Jamel Strong Signs With Mixed Bag Entertainment
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World Famous Soul Stirrers Reunite for Historic Gospel Revival
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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 [...]
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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/
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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 @adamrayokay 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, [...]
