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Tribl Records Celebrates GRAMMY Award Win
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.
The 67th GRAMMY Awards: Winners in the Gospel Categories
List of the GRAMMY winners in the Gospel categories at the 67th GRAMMY Awards, February 2, 2025.
Regina Vandereijk – The Lord is There
The Lord is There is the first full-length album by CCM singer Regina Vandereijk and the follow-up to her spectacular 2024 EP Love Called Her Home, which included “Jesus,” JGM’s Best Song of 2024.
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Tribl Records Celebrates GRAMMY Award Win
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.
The 67th GRAMMY Awards: Winners in the Gospel Categories
List of the GRAMMY winners in the Gospel categories at the 67th GRAMMY Awards, February 2, 2025.
Regina Vandereijk – The Lord is There
The Lord is There is the first full-length album by CCM singer Regina Vandereijk and the follow-up to her spectacular 2024 EP Love Called Her Home, which included “Jesus,” JGM’s Best Song of 2024.
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“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
Given the unexpected success of, and critical acclaim for, the 2023 release Parchman Prison Prayer – Some Mississippi Sunday Morning, GRAMMY Award-winning producer and author Ian Brennan flew back to the Mississippi penitentiary to do a second album, Parchman Prison Prayer - Another Mississippi Sunday Morning.
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) – [...]
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.
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.
LATEST 5 STAR REVIEWS
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.
What makes Ubuntu outstanding is that it doesn’t just feature Jonathan Butler, smooth jazz artist, but Jonathan Butler, smooth jazz artist who has returned to his roots and applied his craft to an expression of African sentiments, sounds, and rhythms. It’s the South African musician’s finest album to date.
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
“Call On Him” Fantastik Violinaires feat. Danny Walker Millennium Sound Records (release date: September 27, 2024)
Based on Amos 9:13-15, “Suddenly” is an auspicious debut single from Christian Anderson, an accomplished and affecting Greensboro, North Carolina, singer.
“There Wouldn’t Be a Me” Shonda English Gospel Diva Music (release date: January 23, 2024)
“Never Turn Back” Gregory G. Pearson feat. Angelena Starks Inner Court Music (release date: September 15, 2023)
Melvin Crispell III – the BET Sunday Best Season 9 champion – gives James Fryson’s classic composition “God Is” an easygoing shuffle tempo.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 30, 2024, at age 80. The following is based on a bio I wrote for the Malaco Music Group website some years ago: The Reverend [...]