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BET Sunday Best finalist Marjane’ adds a single to her music catalog by invoking Psalm 30:5 to encourage all discouraged listeners that although things are bad now, they won’t always be.
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The husband-and-wife duo Arbour Season emit vibes of indie pop groups Tennis and Low on the tender “Come to Me,” based on Matthew 11:28-29.
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The brief nine-track album is high energy and earnest, sunshiny optimism, with effusive singing about praise, hope, and encouragement.
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“Joy in the Morning” – Marjane’
BET Sunday Best finalist Marjane’ adds a single to her music catalog by invoking Psalm 30:5 to encourage all discouraged listeners that although things are bad now, they won’t always be.
JGM Pick of the Week: September 2, 2025
The husband-and-wife duo Arbour Season emit vibes of indie pop groups Tennis and Low on the tender “Come to Me,” based on Matthew 11:28-29.
SEMAJE – ’92
The brief nine-track album is high energy and earnest, sunshiny optimism, with effusive singing about praise, hope, and encouragement.
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“I’ll See Him” Highway QCs feat. Spencer Taylor Jr. Independent / DJJ Music Media (release date: August 10, 2023)
n his latest album, The Journey, worship leader and Chicagoland resident Todd Dulaney continues to deliver P&W selections steeped in Biblical wisdom.
Come meet the filmmaker and special guests for a panel discussion about the film, the Black Church, the LGBTQ+ community, and gospel music.
“Great and Mighty” Dorinda Clark Cole Malaco Music Group (release date: October 13, 2023)
“Running to the Light” is another melodic treat from Ontario-born Christian singer-songwriter Amanda Joy Powell.
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“Blessing Me” Dr. F. James Clark Presents NextGeneration Choir From the City of Peace CD Sure. Focused. Centered (2017) By Bob Marovich Despite the jaunty piano intro and thunderous singing of the NextGeneration Choir, “Blessing Me” belongs to its fiery lead vocalist, Meaghan Williams-McNeal. Her feisty shouts and squalls lead the group on this churchy offering of thanksgiving [...]
“Believe” Ese-Osa April Sound https://www.facebook.com/eseosamusic/ By Bob Marovich The gospel artist formerly known as Liosa offers “Believe,” a lovely ballad of personal encouragement sung as part prayer and part soaring affirmation. To a lilting piano, Ese-Osa's beguiling alto delivers her hopeful message with dead-on conviction and apexes with a range-extending shout. Ese-Osa, christened Osasuyi Deborah [...]
“Trouble Won’t Last” Apostle James Alston & Fellowship https://apostlejamesalston.com/ By Bob Marovich By their name, Apostle James Alston & Fellowship sounds like a P&W group, but they are actually a quartet, complete with Alston’s gravelly lead vocal delivery and gospel chuckle. For “Trouble Won’t Last,” Alston & Fellowship delivers the reassuring message of Psalm 30:5, [...]
“Prayer Room” Jarell Smalls & Co. From the CD A New Season Southern Wave Music Group / Get Ready Music Group (release date: May 19, 2017) http://jarellsmalls.com/ By Bob Marovich By evoking Grandma at the outset, Jarell Smalls gives the appropriate old-school pedigree to “Prayer Room.” Then, to a rockabilly-guitar-meets-Pentecostal-beat, he and his group jump [...]
“Let the Healing Begin” Ernest J. Lee feat. Gerard Brooks From Anthems from the Vault, Vol. 1 David's Dance Music/RedTape Ent. (release date: June 13, 2017) https://ernestjleemusic.org/ By Bob Marovich All of us have burdens, Ernest J. Lee states at the outset of “Let the Healing Begin,” and it’s time to shed them. Featured vocalist [...]
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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.
It is with heavy heart that ig askmeaboutmywiener22JGM 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 [...]
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 [...]
