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Root Magazine Launches Rooted In Wellness Initiative at 16th Anniversary Celebration and Live Gospel Showcase in Nashville, TN
Hasan James New York, NY – July 31, 2025 – Root Magazine, one of gospel music’s premier publications, proudly announces the launch of its groundbreaking health awareness initiative, Rooted In Wellness, during its Sixteenth Anniversary Celebration and Annual Live Musical Showcase. The event will take place on Friday, August 15, 2025, at Analog at the Hutton Hotel in Nashville, TN, as part of Stellar Awards weekend and is free of charge. Rooted In Wellness is a new multimedia initiative and movement created by Root Magazine and Founder/CEO Hasan James, designed to address the critical health disparities impacting African-American [...]
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“Brighter Days” Roshawn Nicole Roshawn Nicole Records (release date: May 4, 2024)
Strange Things Happening – Kid Ramos feat. Brian Templeton and Johnny Ramos
On Strange Things Happening, the first album in five years by California-born guitarist, singer, and songwriter David “Kid” Ramos, the bite of no-holds-barred roadhouse blues meets timeless gospel songs that have shaken the rafters of many churches for decades.
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Root Magazine Launches Rooted In Wellness Initiative at 16th Anniversary Celebration and Live Gospel Showcase in Nashville, TN
Hasan James New York, NY – July 31, 2025 – Root Magazine, one of gospel music’s premier publications, proudly announces the launch of its groundbreaking health awareness initiative, Rooted In Wellness, during its Sixteenth Anniversary Celebration and Annual Live Musical Showcase. The event will take place on Friday, August 15, 2025, at Analog at the Hutton Hotel in Nashville, TN, as part of Stellar Awards weekend and is free of charge. Rooted In Wellness is a new multimedia initiative and movement created by Root Magazine and Founder/CEO Hasan James, designed to address the critical health disparities impacting African-American [...]
JGM Pick of the Week – March 11, 2025
“Brighter Days” Roshawn Nicole Roshawn Nicole Records (release date: May 4, 2024)
Strange Things Happening – Kid Ramos feat. Brian Templeton and Johnny Ramos
On Strange Things Happening, the first album in five years by California-born guitarist, singer, and songwriter David “Kid” Ramos, the bite of no-holds-barred roadhouse blues meets timeless gospel songs that have shaken the rafters of many churches for decades.
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The Lighthouse Singers and a chorus of singers team up to deliver deliciously old fashioned gospel quartet singing on “Good To Me.”
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This may be the most haunting, the most refreshingly informal, and the most moving album you encounter this year.
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“I’ll Do It For You” The Fantastic Bibletones BTones Music (release date: January 29, 2019) www.thefantasticbibletones.com By Bob Marovich Not the Buffalo, New York, group of yesteryear, this Fantastic Bibletones is a female gospel quartet from St. Louis, Missouri, that sounds like a church-honed Sister Sledge. The ladies’ new single, “I’ll Do It For You,” [...]
“Haven’t Seen It Yet” Danny Gokey Sparrow / Capitol Christian Music Group (release date: January 11, 2019) www.dannygokeymusic.com By Bob Marovich After a two-year hiatus, American Idol finalist and CCM star Danny Gokey is back with a new single, “Haven’t Seen It Yet.” The single evokes in melody and arrangement the pop hits of Sam [...]
“It’s All About You” Rev. Stef & Jubilation (independent, 2019) https://store.cdbaby.com/Artist/RevStefandJubilation By Bob Marovich The Reverend Dr. Stefanie Minatee, aka Rev. Stef, is back doing what she loves—directing Jubilation, the gospel choir that, among other achievements, backed Queen Latifah on the title track of the GRAMMY Award-winning various artists gospel compilation, Oh Happy Day (EMI, [...]
“Blessing Me” CHurCHicago Independent (release date: February 8, 2019) https://store.cdbaby.com/Artist/Churchicago By Bob Marovich The first couple of singles by CHurCHicago left me regretfully nonplussed, but their latest, “Blessing Me,” is a different story. A drive-tempo selection fitted with a fiery vamp and feisty guitar licks, “Blessing Me” is a plea for continued blessings in spite [...]
“Anchored”God’s PosseIndependent (release date: January 30, 2019) By Bob Marovich Acknowledging at the outset that “Anchored” is actually an old song with a new twist, God’s Posse of Chicago proceeds to provide an up-tempo reading of said old song, complete with soft harmonies, a lead-trading vamp, and contemporary arrangement. The metaphoric “Anchored” teaches that, in [...]
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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.
Photo Credit: Legacy.com Stanley "Stan" Lewis, owner of Jewel Records, passed away July 14, 2018, at the age of 91. In 1948, he and his wife Pauline opened Stan's Record Shop in Shreveport, Louisiana. One of their customers was a young Elvis Presley. From there, the Lewis's built their enterprise into a mail [...]
By Bob Marovich Clarence Fountain, the longtime lead singer and an original member of the Grammy Award-winning Blind Boys of Alabama, passed away this morning. He was the last of the original members of the group that was organized in 1944. Six sightless pupils, including Clarence Fountain, left the Alabama Institute for the Negro Deaf [...]
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