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RIP: Henry Jackson DMus – Singer, Musician, Songwriter, and Group Leader
Henry Jackson DMus--who transitioned from labor to glory on September 18, 2025 at age 80.
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“Keep On Smiling” Heroy (Independent; release date: June 27, 2025)
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Central City Productions' “40th Stellar Gospel Music Awards” were held on August 16th, 2025 at the historic Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, TN.
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RIP: Henry Jackson DMus – Singer, Musician, Songwriter, and Group Leader
Henry Jackson DMus--who transitioned from labor to glory on September 18, 2025 at age 80.
JGM Pick of the Week – August 19, 2025
“Keep On Smiling” Heroy (Independent; release date: June 27, 2025)
40th Annual Stellar Gospel Award Winners Revealed
Central City Productions' “40th Stellar Gospel Music Awards” were held on August 16th, 2025 at the historic Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, TN.
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Ed. Note: This remembrance, written by Kem Evans, is so affecting I want to share it with the Journal of Gospel Music readers. Mrs. Doris L. Brown is an example [...]
“Let Him In” Flint Cavaliers feat. Pastor Shawn Brown From the Flint Music Group album The Fellowship (Psalms 133:1) (album release date: March 15, 2024)
Gospel singer-songwriter Bobbi Lane talks to the Journal of Gospel Music about the genesis of some of the songs on her new EP, Unmatched Grace.
UK-based modern worship artist Faithful Forever offers a stunning cover of “10,000 Reasons,” the Matt Redman hit from 2012.
On Record Store Day, April 12, 2025, Shanachie Entertainment will release special colored vinyl editions of Moving On Up A Little Higher.
In a major career milestone, Alexxander is the first Latin Spanish-language artist signed to Reach Records.
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Various Artists Lift Me Up: Chicago Gospel Keyboard Masters The Sirens (release date: July 11, 2016) www.thesirensrecords.com By Bob Marovich Those who think traditional gospel music is dead, hapless victim of today’s P&W and urban AC influences in sacred music, The Sirens’ new release, Lift Me Up: Chicago Gospel Keyboard Masters, is proof that the music [...]
Shirley Caesar Fill This House Entertainment One Music (release date: June 3, 2016) www.shirleycaesar.com By Bob Marovich From its days as a seedling in the American soil, black sacred music has been a balm to soothe the sin-sick soul as well as the soul beaten down by life’s humiliations and insults. Even in a time [...]
Livre’ Jericho: The Tribe of Joshua Glory 2 Glory Records / MBK Records / Sony RED Association Labels (release date: May 20, 2016) By Bob Marovich If part of today’s political rhetoric is about building walls, Livre’ is about knocking them down. Eliminating life’s barriers is the premise of the group's sonically delightful Jericho: The [...]
Pastor David Wright & N.Y. Fellowship Mass Choir (Next Generation) Clap Your Hands Godfather Records (release date: April 19, 2016) www.godfathergospel.com By Bob Marovich When Pastor David Wright speaks of his father on the second of the two-CD N.Y. Fellowship Mass Choir recordings done in June 2013, he is referring to the late Reverend Timothy Wright, [...]
Various Artists Halo: The One-Derful! Collection Secret Stash Records (release date of CD: April 15, 2016; LP available since February 2016) www.secretstashrecords.com By Bob Marovich During the 1950s and 1960s, Chicago record men and brothers George and Ernie Leaner helped transform South Michigan Avenue’s famed “Motor Row” (of auto dealerships) into Record Row. In addition [...]
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
“He Did It For Me” Alicia Moore Independent (release date: April 28, 2023)
“God, You’ve Been Faithful” Lucinda Moore & Tramaine Hawkins Nalah Music Group (release date: March 31, 2023)
“Live Again” Kelontae Gavin From the Marquis Boone Enterprises LLC / RCA Inspiration album Testify (single release date: March 10, 2023)
“Move Upstairs” Tim Woodson and the Heirs of Harmony Marxan Records (release date: January 27, 2023)
“When Love Comes In” Jonathan Butler feat. Keb’ Mo’ From the Artistry Music / Mack Avenue Music Group album Ubuntu (release date: April 28, 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.
By Bob Marovich Bryan Popin, the singer, songwriter, producer, and musician whose national debut gospel album, You Can Make It, was released by eOne Music in 2013, is back with a new single and new career momentum. He has seen lots of success in music and loves to spread his love to others. His greatest [...]
St. Luke Gospel Expressions By Bob Marovich Once upon a time, there was an artistic expression of worship, inaugurated and performed by youth, that wasn’t accepted by all members of the church. I’m not talking about gospel music, or Christian hip hop. Vanessa Odom I’m talking about praise dancing. Like its [...]
By Bob Marovich To carve out a niche in a quartet community crowded with local and national artists, the Gospel Sensations are employing a time-honored principle that has been all but abandoned in gospel music. A cappella harmony singing. That’s right: trendsetting by going back to the way gospel quartets sang prior to the 1950s: [...]
Bishop Carlton Pearson died on Sunday night in hospice care in Tulsa due to cancer, said his agent, Will Bogle.
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