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Dorinda Clark-Cole and Vincent Bohanan Set to Host Stellar Nominee Pre-Show Dinner and Awards at the National Museum of African American Music
RADIO AWARDS HOSTED BY LONNIE HUNTER; PRE-SHOW RED CARPET HOSTED BY META WASHINGTON & RIZZO SPECIAL PERFORMANCES AND GUEST APPEARANCES BY: ERICA CAMPBELL, MICAH LEE, TASHA PAGE LOCKHART, LISA KNOWLES-SMITH, EVVIE MCKINNEY, DOE, LUCINDA MOORE, MARTHA MUNIZZI, TED & SHERI AND MORE (July 29, 2025) Nashville, TN - The 40th Stellar Gospel Music Awards - Gospel Music’s Greatest Night - gets even GREATER! Today, Central City Productions announced that Dorinda Clark-Cole and Vincent Bohanan will host the Stellar Nominee Pre-Show Dinner and Awards at the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville on Friday, August 15th. This exclusive, invitation-only [...]
Kirk Franklin’s Fo Yo Soul Recordings and CLTRE Lab Partner with Insignia Assets; Appointed Chief of Creative Services
Gospel icon Kirk Franklin is joining forces with Insignia Assets, a new entertainment venture established by Norman Gyamfi and Jonathan Jay.
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Dorinda Clark-Cole and Vincent Bohanan Set to Host Stellar Nominee Pre-Show Dinner and Awards at the National Museum of African American Music
RADIO AWARDS HOSTED BY LONNIE HUNTER; PRE-SHOW RED CARPET HOSTED BY META WASHINGTON & RIZZO SPECIAL PERFORMANCES AND GUEST APPEARANCES BY: ERICA CAMPBELL, MICAH LEE, TASHA PAGE LOCKHART, LISA KNOWLES-SMITH, EVVIE MCKINNEY, DOE, LUCINDA MOORE, MARTHA MUNIZZI, TED & SHERI AND MORE (July 29, 2025) Nashville, TN - The 40th Stellar Gospel Music Awards - Gospel Music’s Greatest Night - gets even GREATER! Today, Central City Productions announced that Dorinda Clark-Cole and Vincent Bohanan will host the Stellar Nominee Pre-Show Dinner and Awards at the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville on Friday, August 15th. This exclusive, invitation-only [...]
Kirk Franklin’s Fo Yo Soul Recordings and CLTRE Lab Partner with Insignia Assets; Appointed Chief of Creative Services
Gospel icon Kirk Franklin is joining forces with Insignia Assets, a new entertainment venture established by Norman Gyamfi and Jonathan Jay.
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Melvin Crispell III – the BET Sunday Best Season 9 champion – gives James Fryson’s classic composition “God Is” an easygoing shuffle tempo.
The Ring Music Group is proud to announce its involvement in the PBS film series RENEGADES, contributing original music for three of five pivotal episodes in the series.
Singer-songwriter DOE has repainted the time-tested prayer room in shades of neo-soul and introspective acoustic sounds.
"We Three Kings," starring BeBe Winans and Deborah Joy Winans, will be part of Lifetime's It's a Wonderful Lifetime movie slate this holiday season.
Bri Babineaux’s best single in a while, “Confident” lives up to its title in lyric and overall musical swagger.
LATEST 5 STAR REVIEWS
Dr. F. James Clark & the Shalom Church (City of Peace) Mass Choir Simply Amazing (Release Date: June 16, 2015) www.shalomccop.org By Bob Marovich This debut project from Dr. F. James Clark’s Shalom Church (City of Peace) Mass Choir of Florissant, Missouri, captured my interest the second I saw that the Reverend Quincy Fielding Jr. [...]
Tasha Cobbs One Place Live Motown Gospel (release date: August 21, 2015) www.motowngospel.com By Bob Marovich Recorded before nearly 3,000 worshippers at Redemption Church in Greenville, South Carolina, singer-songwriter Tasha Cobbs’ One Place Live is a solid follow-up to her number one CD, Grace. It actually surpasses the multi-award-winning debut album, as the worship songstress sounds [...]
AsOne AsOne 360 MusicWorx/Capitol Christian Distribution/Universal Music Group (release date: June 23, 2015) www.AsOneOfficial.com By Bob Marovich Interracial gospel/sacred singing groups go back more than a century—from the days of Polk Miller & the Old South Quartette at the turn of the twentieth century to Homer Rodeheaver’s singing with the African American Wiseman Sextette; and [...]
Fannie Lou Hamer Songs My Mother Taught Me Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (release date: June 30, 2015) www.folkways.si.edu By Bob Marovich While it took a recent act of domestic terror for the polarizing Confederate flag to begin coming down throughout the South, let us not forget that much of the way was paved more than a [...]
Casey J The Truth Marquis Boone Enterprises/Tyscot Records (released April 21, 2015) www.tyscot.com By Bob Marovich The next best thing to a live gospel music program is listening to a live gospel music program on a recording. That’s why it was smart for Casey J to release her debut album, The Truth, as a live [...]
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
“Speak to the Mountain” Angela Moss Poole 141st Lane Music/DarkChild Gospel (2022)
“One Step Closer” DiVine of Annapolis From the CD One Step Closer (release date: September 20, 2022)
“He’ll Make It Alright” Julius Pearson & the Gospel Chorale of Chicago Enchanted Media Group
“All Things Are Working” Joe Pace feat. Callie Day Pace Music Group (release date: November 18, 2022)
“Favor” Danielle Stephens DRS Music (release date: July 1, 2022)
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 On May 20, Micah Stampley releases his eighth album, To the King...Vertical Worship. The live recording, which took place at Oasis Family Life Church in Dallas, Georgia, on June 26 of last year, finds the gospel crooner offering up a batch of new songs, many co-written with his wife and songwriting partner, Heidi. [...]
By Bob Marovich On March 18, the Stellar Award-winning singer-songwriter Jonathan Nelson released Fearless (Light Records / eOne Music), a live recording that JGM gave its highest possible rating, five stars, for its ability to “be musically versatile and passionate yet remain firmly rooted in the atmospheric and hypnotic P&W technique.” Nelson spoke to JGM about [...]
By Bob Marovich A lot can happen in two years. Just ask Christon Gray. In 2014, the Christian artist released his solo debut album, School of Roses. It caught the attention of Kirk Franklin, who signed Gray to his Fo Yo Soul Recordings/RCA label. On Friday, March 11, 2016, The Glory Album, Christon’s second solo [...]
JGM is saddened to learn of the passing of Spencer Bouvier Taylor III, drummer and singer with the legendary quartet the Highway QCs.
Lloyd Cannady Jr., age 80, slipped away peacefully on Monday, May 1, 2023.