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Earl Bynum and Jim Vierra Form Partnership to Create and Deliver New Music and Inspirational Content
Dr. Earl Bynum and Jim Vierra announce their powerful partnership between Bynum’s Lrae Entertainment® and Vierra’s Fifty Something Records.
JGM Pick of the Week – September 23, 2024
The beloved Dottie Rambo composition is especially poignant in the wake of the plane crash that took the lives of three of the four members of The Nelons just weeks ago.
Florida’s Own Bessie Pullen, 97-Year-Old Singer, Reflects on Her Life in Gospel Music
There aren't many gospel singers left who remember the early days of the genre. But Ms. Bessie Pullen does. The 97-Year-Old singer reflects on her life as a gospel singer in Florida. Her husband, Melvyn Pullen, was a member of the popular quartet the Gospelaires.
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Earl Bynum and Jim Vierra Form Partnership to Create and Deliver New Music and Inspirational Content
Dr. Earl Bynum and Jim Vierra announce their powerful partnership between Bynum’s Lrae Entertainment® and Vierra’s Fifty Something Records.
JGM Pick of the Week – September 23, 2024
The beloved Dottie Rambo composition is especially poignant in the wake of the plane crash that took the lives of three of the four members of The Nelons just weeks ago.
Florida’s Own Bessie Pullen, 97-Year-Old Singer, Reflects on Her Life in Gospel Music
There aren't many gospel singers left who remember the early days of the genre. But Ms. Bessie Pullen does. The 97-Year-Old singer reflects on her life as a gospel singer in Florida. Her husband, Melvyn Pullen, was a member of the popular quartet the Gospelaires.
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The muscular-voiced Hurd who leads the call-and-response with the background vocalists on this rhythmically undulating song of praise.
“He Brought Me Out” Quinten Simon Independent (release date: January 20, 2023)
Here are the 65th Grammy winners in the Gospel and Contemporary Christian categories.
Craft Recordings created an animated video of an Eric Mercury track “I Shall Not Be moved (Live From Wattstax).” The video focuses on the gospel aspect of the historic Wattstax [...]
“Speak to the Mountain” Angela Moss Poole 141st Lane Music/DarkChild Gospel (2022)
Dana “Ms. D.” Lin informed the Journal of Gospel Music that Charles V. Hamilton, affectionately known as Uncle Chucc and best known for his collaboration with Snoop Dogg, passed away on Friday, January 27, 2023.
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“Alabaster Box” Lillie Nicole McCloud From the album Red Apples (release date: May 27, 2015) https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/lillienicolemccloud By Bob Marovich In 2013, Lillie Nicole McCloud of Orlando, Florida, wowed all four judges and the entire audience on Season 3 of the television competition show The X Factor with her rendition of CeCe Winans’ lovely Biblical ballad, “Alabaster [...]
“I Am Blessed” MarQuez Curtis feat. Tiffanie “Tutu” Agee Mary Elizabeth Music Group (2017) By Bob Marovich For those wondering what Tiffanie “Tutu” Agee of the Truthettes has been up to lately, it’s joining MarQuez Curtis in giving effusive testimony for blessings bestowed by God—blessings that neither singer takes for granted. That’s the premise of [...]
“He Won’t Let You Down” Victoria Brown From the album Journey (release date: May 2, 2017) www.victoriabrownministries.com By Bob Marovich Hearing “He Won’t Let You Down” leaves no doubt that traditional gospel is in Victoria Brown’s DNA. Brown travels from sweet to shout on this bluesy and evangelistic selection. It is as much an internal conversation about [...]
“Lord, You’ve Been Good to Me” Tim Woodson & the Heirs of Harmony Peacock Music Group (release date: April 11, 2017) www.peacockmusicgroup.com By Bob Marovich With their version of a gospel quartet classic recorded in 1961 by the Original Five Blind Boys (and credited to the late Lloyd Woodard), Tim Woodson & the Heirs of [...]
“You Can Call on Jesus” Donnie, Darryl & the Joyboyz From the JSound Records album He Did It (release date: October 21, 2016) By Bob Marovich From Nashville, Tennessee, Donnie and Darryl Frierson are known as the “smallest men in gospel” because they each hit four-and-a-half feet tall and not much more than that. But [...]
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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.
Please keep Vanessa Bell Armstrong and her family lifted in prayer. Madame Armstrong's mother passed in March and now we learn that her son Terrance passed away just hours ago. Thanks to Mona King Austin for sharing the news with Journal of Gospel Music. We extend our deepest sympathies to the entire family and its circle [...]
Marcel West informed the Journal of Gospel Music that gospel singer Julia Mae Price-Williams died. A PK--her father pastored Second Baptist Church in Augusta--Miss Julia sang briefly with the Davis Sisters of Philadelphia and later the Caravans. She married Rev. Felton Williams Jr., and in 1981, while living in Baltimore, she recorded her first solo [...]