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JGM Pick of the Week – March 11, 2025
Released last May in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, indie gospel artist Roshawn Nicole’s “Brighter Days” is evergreen.
JGM Pick of the Week – March 3, 2025
“It’s In Your Praise” Lamont McCoy David’s Dance Music (release date: December 31, 2024)
John P. Kee to be Honored at the 2025 BMI Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards
World-renowned Gospel music pioneer and pastor John P. Kee will be honored as a Trailblazer of Gospel in recognition of his award-winning career spanning over 40 years.
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JGM Pick of the Week – March 11, 2025
Released last May in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, indie gospel artist Roshawn Nicole’s “Brighter Days” is evergreen.
JGM Pick of the Week – March 3, 2025
“It’s In Your Praise” Lamont McCoy David’s Dance Music (release date: December 31, 2024)
John P. Kee to be Honored at the 2025 BMI Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards
World-renowned Gospel music pioneer and pastor John P. Kee will be honored as a Trailblazer of Gospel in recognition of his award-winning career spanning over 40 years.
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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.
Globally-acclaimed TRIBL Records celebrates winning Best Gospel Performance/Song at the 67th GRAMMY Awards, for the mega-single, “One Hallelujah” featuring Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Israel Houghton, Erica Campbell, Jonathan McReynolds, and Jekalyn Carr.
DOE EARNS HER FIRST GRAMMY AWARD - BEST CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR AT THE 67TH GRAMMY AWARDS (Nashville, TN) - February 4, 2025 - Acclaimed singer, songwriter, [...]
List of the GRAMMY winners in the Gospel categories at the 67th GRAMMY Awards, February 2, 2025.
LATEST 5 STAR REVIEWS
For its sixth album and first in three years, gospel group Anthony Brown and Group TherAPy offers a battery of scripture-based affirmations on its album of the same name.
Jekalyn Carr Jekalyn New Day Entertainment (release date: October 20, 2023) By Robert M. Marovich Jekalyn Carr, gospel music’s queen of encouragement, returns with a self-titled album that captures her unconquerable energy even as the lyrics focus less on the power of positive thinking and action, and more on the power of praise, worship, [...]
Gaither Tribute is a big bouquet of roses for Bill and Gloria Gaither.
Live From New Orleans delivers marvelous singing, well-written songs, professional musicians, and all of it expertly curated. It’s a worship experience in a jewel case.
Believer, Ray Curenton’s third studio album, is his finest to date.
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
“He Will Heal the Land” Rev. Hayward Anderson & the Davis Chorale Singers Anderson Music Group (release date: August 26, 2024)
“Near” The Beautiful Gate Music From the album We All Need Jesus (single release date: January 31, 2025)
“Blessings” Yolanda Adams From the Epic Records album Sunny Days (album release date: September 13, 2024)
Mervin Mayo, the Richmond, Virginia, policeman whose gospel singing was caught on video in 2020 and subsequently went viral, sings “In This Place” with a gritty and instantly-compelling R&B-style vocal delivery.
“Rise” Jokia From the motion picture soundtrack Love Mountain Blacksmoke Music Worldwide (release date: May 17, 2024)
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 Robert M. Marovich Take in a concert by The SteelDrivers and, in between songs like “Blue Side of the Mountain,” "Wearin' a Hole," and “Long Way Down,” you might hear a song or two from the canon of southern gospel music. But until yesterday, one could not find an entire album of gospel songs [...]
Produced by Brown, Gaither Tribute features Gaither compositions reinterpreted by stars like Reba McEntyre, Alabama, Hillary Scott, Jamey Johnson, CeCe Winans, and Ronnie Milsap. The album is slated for release by the Gaither Music Group (distributed by Capitol Christian Music Group and Universal Music) on Friday, August 25.
By Robert M. Marovich What if your music ministry provided songs for not one church, nor two, nor even three, but hundreds? That’s what King’s Collective does. King’s Collective is the artistic arm of King’s Cathedral & Chapels. From a First Assembly of God church of 100 members in Maui, Hawaii, to planting churches [...]
Gospel singer and background vocalist Emily "Cissy" Houston passed away October 7, 2024, at age 91.
The Journal of Gospel Music was saddened to learn today from Darrell Luster of Malaco Music Group that Darryl Frierson, one-half of the twin duo the Joy Boyz, passed away. Homegoing details are below. From the Malaco Music Group bio on the Joy Boyz: If family groups are ubiquitous in gospel music, brother [...]