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Spencer Taylor Jr. Homegoing Celebration Details
The Taylor Family Posts Homegoing Celebration Details for Spencer Taylor Jr. of the Highway QCs
Gospel Industry Leader Telisa Stinson Receives Inaugural Al “The Bishop” Hobbs Legacy Award
The Alliance presented the inaugural Al "The Bishop" Hobbs Legacy Award to Gospel music industry leader Mrs. Telisa Stinson for her many years of work in the genre as a record label executive, promoter, and artist manager.
Gospel Music Hall of Fame Announces 2025 Class of Inductees and Special Award Recipients
The Gospel Music Hall of Fame (GMHOF) announced its 2025 Induction Gala Ceremony and Expo. The two-day event is scheduled during Gospel Music Heritage Month on Friday, September 5th, and Saturday, September 6th, 2025 from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the St. Louis Convention Center.
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Spencer Taylor Jr. Homegoing Celebration Details
The Taylor Family Posts Homegoing Celebration Details for Spencer Taylor Jr. of the Highway QCs
Gospel Industry Leader Telisa Stinson Receives Inaugural Al “The Bishop” Hobbs Legacy Award
The Alliance presented the inaugural Al "The Bishop" Hobbs Legacy Award to Gospel music industry leader Mrs. Telisa Stinson for her many years of work in the genre as a record label executive, promoter, and artist manager.
Gospel Music Hall of Fame Announces 2025 Class of Inductees and Special Award Recipients
The Gospel Music Hall of Fame (GMHOF) announced its 2025 Induction Gala Ceremony and Expo. The two-day event is scheduled during Gospel Music Heritage Month on Friday, September 5th, and Saturday, September 6th, 2025 from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the St. Louis Convention Center.
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“He Will Heal the Land” Rev. Hayward Anderson & the Davis Chorale Singers Anderson Music Group (release date: August 26, 2024)
When Chicagoland-area gospel singer-songwriter Bobbi Lane’s father, Pastor Abram Lane, passed away, she wrote “Light in a Dark Place” to heal her pain.
“Near” The Beautiful Gate Music From the album We All Need Jesus (single release date: January 31, 2025)
“You Won It All” Taushey Sias TVL (release date: April 19, 2024) By Robert M. Marovich What sets “You Won It All” apart from other current gospel singles are the [...]
“Blessings” Yolanda Adams From the Epic Records album Sunny Days (album release date: September 13, 2024)
Journal of Gospel Music presents its Best of List for 2024
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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
“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)
“It Is Well” Monica Lisa Stevenson Blacksmoke Music Worldwide (release date: April 28, 2023)
“Heaven Belongs to You” The Wilson Family of Cades JEF Records (release date: March 7, 2023)
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 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: [...]
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.
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