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Rare Helen Hollins & Bishop Hollins Sr. Release on Good Friday
From Alicia Hollins and Innovative Holding Partners: My family is absolutely thrilled about the Good Friday release of a very special recording: "Thy Will" by the legendary Helen Hollins featuring Bishop Milton Hollins Sr. Even more exciting, we're building the official Helen Hollins YouTube channel where you'll get access to all the new releases, behind-the-scenes stories, interviews with special guests, and eventually, the documentary series "I Don't Know What You Come To Do"! Please take a moment to subscribe and share the channel with everyone you know: youtube.com/@helenhollinssingers
JGM Pick of the Week – October 28, 2024
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 Announces Its Contribution To The PBS Film Series RENEGADES
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.
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Rare Helen Hollins & Bishop Hollins Sr. Release on Good Friday
From Alicia Hollins and Innovative Holding Partners: My family is absolutely thrilled about the Good Friday release of a very special recording: "Thy Will" by the legendary Helen Hollins featuring Bishop Milton Hollins Sr. Even more exciting, we're building the official Helen Hollins YouTube channel where you'll get access to all the new releases, behind-the-scenes stories, interviews with special guests, and eventually, the documentary series "I Don't Know What You Come To Do"! Please take a moment to subscribe and share the channel with everyone you know: youtube.com/@helenhollinssingers
JGM Pick of the Week – October 28, 2024
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 Announces Its Contribution To The PBS Film Series RENEGADES
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.
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Kell Bailey’s Evidence is a collection of bracing P&W selections with traces of hymnody embedded in their DNA.
The Mississippi Mass Choir’s latest single “The Promise” has more of a pop sound than we’re used to from a group best known for combining the intensity of quartet singing with the full-throated sound of a community choir.
Chicago-based gospel singer Betty Lester gets real about the challenges of life on this special Spiritual Warfare episode of "Conversations with the Gospel Legends."
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.
Strictly Gospel by Northern Ireland’s Belfast Community Gospel Choir is a collection of contemporary gospel, CCM, and classic inspirational songs. The group is directed by Marie Lacey, the daughter of gospel singer Margaret Leebody and a soloist herself.
Platinum-Selling Group, Shekinah Glory Ministry Will Pre-Screen Forthcoming Documentary Series “PRAISE IS WHAT I DO: BEYOND THE PRAISE” in Oak Forest June 9
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“Holy Ghost” Frozene Lott Hayes LotHay Music (2018) Available on iTunes By Bob Marovich You can be certain that a song titled “Holy Ghost” is going to be a church burner, and Frozene Hayes delivers on this promise. Supported by a chugging band and a choir of BGVs, Hayes sings about the exhilaration of salvation [...]
“Chainbreaker” Angela “Missy” Billups E’Mazin Entertainment (release date: May 15, 2018) Available digitally By Bob Marovich New York-based singer Angela “Missy” Billups is known for both traditional church wreckers and rhythmic praise ballads. Her latest single, “Chainbreaker,” is right in the middle in terms of tempo, while the lyrics are consistent with the message she [...]
“Enter His Gates” Patrick Lundy and the Ministers of Music From the New Day Distribution CD By Faith www.plundymom.com By Bob Marovich Minister Patrick Lundy’s musical instruction in the gospel and classical worlds are in evidence on the robust church rouser “Enter His Gates.” Taking its text from Psalm 100:4, the song features full production, a solid [...]
“Are You Ready” Jason Champion My Block Records (release date: October 27, 2017) By Bob Marovich To a mid-tempo boogie-woogie rhythm, gospel singer Jason Champion asks the ultimate salvation question: are you ready for Jesus when He comes? He then lets loose with a couple of Sam Cooke yodels and declares he’s ready – in fact, [...]
“If God” Casey J From the forthcoming Tyscot album The Gathering (single release date: June 25, 2018) www.tyscot.com Bob Marovich As a schoolteacher, Casey J has had to ask lots of hard questions. So it’s not surprising that on her new single, “If God,” she wonders aloud why there is still cancer, still violence, and [...]
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.
It is with heavy heart that JGM reports the passing of Audrey Lockett LaBranche, known to the gospel music community as Audrey Cher. She recently gave birth to a son, Mathias Amir, on August 26. Click here to read an interview that JGM did with Audrey last year: Audrey Cher. Homegoing information will be provided [...]
Zadella "Mama" Curtis informed JGM that Pastor Van D. Roberson has passed away. In addition to pastoring the Shiloh Baptist Church in Bryan, Texas, Roberson was a gospel singer in the traditional-quartet style, honed, no doubt, from his years as a member of the Roberson Brothers, which started out prior to 1961 as the Israelite [...]