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Alexxander Becomes First Latin Spanish-Language Artist Signed to Reach Records
In a major career milestone, Alexxander is the first Latin Spanish-language artist signed to Reach Records.
TRIBL Records Celebrates Four NAACP Image Award Nominations
MAVERICK CITY MUSIC LANDS NOMINATION ALONGSIDE GLORILLA FOR #1 BILLBOARD DIGITAL GOSPEL SONG “RAIN ON ME” TRIBL RECORDS SCORES MOST NOMINATIONS ACROSS ALL CHRISTIAN & GOSPEL LABELS (ATLANTA, GA) – January 8, 2025 – Globally-acclaimed TRIBL Records celebrates earning four nominations in the 56th Annual NAACP Image Awards. The commendations [...]
Various Artists – Gospel Diaries Golden Memories (Live)
Gospel Diaries Golden Memories is a series of musical moments captured by historian Eric Maurice Clark during his visits with vocalists and musicians, most of whom have direct links to gospel’s earliest days, especially in Chicago, the genre’s birthplace city.
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Alexxander Becomes First Latin Spanish-Language Artist Signed to Reach Records
In a major career milestone, Alexxander is the first Latin Spanish-language artist signed to Reach Records.
TRIBL Records Celebrates Four NAACP Image Award Nominations
MAVERICK CITY MUSIC LANDS NOMINATION ALONGSIDE GLORILLA FOR #1 BILLBOARD DIGITAL GOSPEL SONG “RAIN ON ME” TRIBL RECORDS SCORES MOST NOMINATIONS ACROSS ALL CHRISTIAN & GOSPEL LABELS (ATLANTA, GA) – January 8, 2025 – Globally-acclaimed TRIBL Records celebrates earning four nominations in the 56th Annual NAACP Image Awards. The commendations [...]
Various Artists – Gospel Diaries Golden Memories (Live)
Gospel Diaries Golden Memories is a series of musical moments captured by historian Eric Maurice Clark during his visits with vocalists and musicians, most of whom have direct links to gospel’s earliest days, especially in Chicago, the genre’s birthplace city.
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Durban, South Africa, Tuesday, 10 September 2024 - Media representatives, colleagues, artists, and the World Gospel Powerhouse team gathered at Ukhozi FM Studios in Durban, South Africa, today for an [...]
“Church Doors” Yolanda Adams Epic Records (album release date: September 13, 2024)
A country-fried intro swings into a powerful mid-tempo testimony to the power of faith on Tamela Mann’s new single, “Working for Me.”
By Robert M. Marovich The Journal of Gospel Music was saddened to learn of the passing of the Reverend Dr. Janice Brown-Stephens. She transitioned from earth to glory on August [...]
First Lady Wanda Wilson Fielding submitted this homegoing information: We will celebrate Quincy‘s amazing God ordained life in the blessed facility of: Faithful Central Bible Church 400 W Florence Avenue, [...]
LATEST 5 STAR REVIEWS
Pastor Donald Gay On a Glorious Day The Sirens Records (release date: March 15, 2019) www.thesirensrecords.com By Bob Marovich Like amber, Pastor Donald Gay's On a Glorious Day preserves the sounds and stories of Chicago's traditional gospel music and church community. Pastor Gay has been in gospel music since knee pants (a photo on the [...]
Roberta Martin Singers Didn’t It Rain / Only a Look / The Old Ship of Zion: 1947-1962 Fremeaux & Associes (release date: February 2019) www.fremeaux.com By Bob Marovich Roberta Martin is to today’s enthusiasts of gospel music what writers like James Joyce and Henry James are to today’s enthusiasts of literature: someone whose work is [...]
William Murphy Settle Here RCA Inspiration (release date: March 15, 2019) www.rcainspiration.com By Bob Marovich William Murphy uses home court advantage to his best advantage on his sixth and latest solo album, Settle Here. Recorded live on a rainy evening at Atlanta’s dReam Center Church, where Murphy is worship leader, Settle Here offers ten superb [...]
Donald Lawrence Presents the Tri-City Singers Goshen RCA Inspiration (release date: February 1, 2019) www.rcainspiration.com By Bob Marovich Using Old and New Testament stories to reinforce the need for a spiritual exodus from modern-day anxieties, Goshen, the latest album by Donald Lawrence and the Tri-City Singers, is the first big gospel release of 2019 and [...]
Gospel Music Workshop of America Detroit Chapter Bringing it Back Home GMWA Detroit Chapter (release date: September 1, 2018) By Bob Marovich After listening to Bringing it Back Home, I’d say the Detroit Chapter of the Gospel Music Workshop of America (GMWA) has the best choir of all workshop chapters in existence today. This live [...]
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
“Still Holding On” Christina Bell Malaco Music Group (2023)
“I Will Wait” Bri Babineaux Bri Babineaux Music LLC / Tyscot Records LLC (release date: April 7, 2023)
The Lighthouse Singers and a chorus of singers team up to deliver deliciously old fashioned gospel quartet singing on “Good To Me.”
He’s so certain of the message in “It’s Gonna Happen” that Atlanta, Georgia, native Anthony Adeion Hill is in full evangelist move from the outset of this gritty traditional-sounding single.
“I Am” Love Desrosiers From the EP Love Unfailing, Part 2 (release date: March 21, 2023)
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In A City Called Heaven, gospel announcer and music historian Robert Marovich shines a light on the humble origins of a majestic genre and its indispensable bond to the city where it found its voice: Chicago.
By Robert Marovich
In A City Called Heaven, gospel announcer and music historian Robert Marovich shines a light on the humble origins of a majestic genre and its indispensable bond to the city where it found its voice: Chicago.
Damon Williams, RCA Inspiration By Bob Marovich In 1998, Damon Williams eagerly purchased a copy of the first-ever WOW Gospel two-CD compilation. “It was a big moment in gospel music,” Williams, who was recently named Vice President of Marketing for RCA Inspiration, shared with the Journal of Gospel Music. “To find something that [...]
By Bob Marovich From the outside, it appeared as if Darnell Davis was on top of the world. He and his gospel group, Remnant, had signed with a major label, RCA Inspiration. They earned Dove Award and Stellar Award nominations for their 2014 release, Moving Forward. The CD cover photo depicted a smiling, confident Davis, [...]
By Bob Marovich In her kitchen washing dishes one day, Dana Fields began to sing a line in unscripted devotion to God: “I will praise you, simply because of who you are. / In worship I adore you, I will lay my life before you. / At the altar of your throne, I bow to [...]
One of the most passionate and anointed voices in gospel music was stilled this week when Mother Vernon Oliver Price passed away at the age of 93.
St. Louis gospel artist and businessman Austin Layne Jr. passed away on October 1 at age 87.