It's an honor to be part of this amazing African American sacred music symposium.  It is said to be the first such gathering of scholars around this single subject since the [...]

NEW YORK, October 16, 2014 – Broadcast Music, Inc.® (BMI®), a global leader in music rights management, is set to salute gospel leaders Israel Houghton, LaShun Pace and The Anointed [...]

(DETROIT, MI - October 15, 2014) Grammy Award-winning producer and Stellar Award-winning artist J Moss was home alone on Tuesday evening, October 14, when fire broke out. The fire quickly [...]

By Bob Marovich Hillsong UNITED was a big winner at the 45th Annual Dove Awards, held in Nashville, Tennessee, yesterday evening. The group took home Artist of the Year and [...]

Nash Shaffer, Jr. By Bob Marovich Bro. Nash Shaffer’s friends and loved ones said he needed no special invitation to sit in the front row of a gospel [...]

Gladys Knight uses her voice to evangelize for the Mormon Church - Local - Ohio.

The Americana Music Association saluted the Fairfield Four and McCrary Sisters. Read more here: With its awards show, the Americana Music Association embraces blues, gospel, and R&B.

Louise Williams Bishop celebrated at The Mann - Religion - Philly Tribune.

Robert Clem of One State Films has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund his documentary on the history of gospel quartet singing. Check out the video and the giving options, [...]

Learn more about Gospel Music Heritage Month at www.gospelmusicheritage.org. If everyone who loves gospel music celebrated Gospel Music Heritage Month by purchasing one gospel CD in September, think of the [...]

Journal of Gospel Music Editor-in-Chief is honored to present "I Can’t Make This Journey By Myself: Gospel Music and the Pursuit of Community and Modernity" at the 2014 Pruit Symposium [...]

Efforts to launch first gospel radio station in Cypress underway - Your Houston News: Living.

By Bob Marovich I first met Pastor Mack C. Mason more than a decade ago. Our mutual appreciation for traditional gospel music brought us together for lunch in Chicago's Loop. [...]

By Bob Marovich Photo: Dr. E. LaQuint Weaver II & the Hallelujah Singers perform on the main stage Saturday night. Credit: Candice Shavalia / Big Red Hen Films Dr. E. LaQuint [...]

DALLAS (August 5, 2014) - Grammy Award® Nominee Tamela Mann and Gospel Icon Kirk Franklin have a lot to celebrate. The "Take Me To The King" digital single, written and [...]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (August 4, 2014) - Stellar Award-nominated gospel recording artist Alexis Spight is being released from her recording contract with Mathew Knowles' Music World Gospel to ink a record deal [...]

Film 'Get on Up!' Reveals James Brown's Gospel Roots - US - CBN News - Christian News 24-7 - CBN.com.

By Bob Marovich On Tuesday, July 29, members of the Gospel Announcers Guild of the Gospel Music Workshop of America saluted their longtime friend and leader, Al "The Bishop" Hobbs, [...]

Phyllis Brown is on the far left. By Bob Marovich The Journal of Gospel Music learned today from Chicago Area Gospel Announcers Guild President Yvonne Wesley-Seabrooks that Phyllis Brown [...]

Henry "Hanq" Neal By Bob Marovich In 2012, the Wheeler Avenue Mass Choir recorded a CD in honor of the Houston, Texas church's fiftieth anniversary. The full-length album, [...]

I am pleased to announce on its tenth anniversary that The Black Gospel Blog is now the Journal of Gospel Music. The name change reflects the proper title of the [...]

Veronica Petrucci (Angelo & Veronica) Seeking New Marketing and Distribution for “Made It Out Alive"Nashville, TN (July 24th, 2014)--Latin Soul songstress, Veronica Petrucci, announces a split from former marketing and [...]

From Donna Stoering Anderson:We are seeking all experienced African-American Gospel Music directors to apply to fill the shoes of our wonderful, nationally-renowned Rawn Harbor who needs, for family reasons, to [...]