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From Legacy to Global Impact: Inaugural bamX-Black Music Week Launches in Atlanta
ATLANTA, GA (March 3, 2026) — Atlanta will take center stage this May with the launch of bamX — Black Music Week, a citywide cultural experience celebrating the legacy, global influence, and future of Black American music. Taking place May 25–June 2, 2026, the inaugural week coincides with Africa Day, Memorial Day, and Black Music Month, uniting culture, commerce, and community in the city widely regarded as the modern epicenter of Black music. Presented by the Black American Music Association (BAMA) in partnership with UNITE ATLANTA, Black Music Week will convene artists, executives, entrepreneurs, educators, civic leaders, and innovators [...]
RIP: Chuck Girard (Love Song)
Chuck Girard of the pioneering Christian rock band Love Song passed away Monday, August 11, 2025, at the age of 81. Born in Los Angeles, California, on August 27, 1943, Girard was a member of the vocal group the Castells (Era), whose "Sacred" and "So This Is Love" made the [...]
The 56th Annual GMA Dove Awards Announces First Round of Performers and Presenters
The Gospel Music Association (GMA) has announced the first round of performers and presenters for the 56th Annual GMA Dove Awards. Performers include Lauren Daigle, Fred Hammond featuring The Choir Room, Gaither Vocal Band, and Josiah Queen. Presenters include John Crist, Sadie Robertson Huff, David & Tamela Mann, and Chris [...]
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From Legacy to Global Impact: Inaugural bamX-Black Music Week Launches in Atlanta
ATLANTA, GA (March 3, 2026) — Atlanta will take center stage this May with the launch of bamX — Black Music Week, a citywide cultural experience celebrating the legacy, global influence, and future of Black American music. Taking place May 25–June 2, 2026, the inaugural week coincides with Africa Day, Memorial Day, and Black Music Month, uniting culture, commerce, and community in the city widely regarded as the modern epicenter of Black music. Presented by the Black American Music Association (BAMA) in partnership with UNITE ATLANTA, Black Music Week will convene artists, executives, entrepreneurs, educators, civic leaders, and innovators [...]
RIP: Chuck Girard (Love Song)
Chuck Girard of the pioneering Christian rock band Love Song passed away Monday, August 11, 2025, at the age of 81. Born in Los Angeles, California, on August 27, 1943, Girard was a member of the vocal group the Castells (Era), whose "Sacred" and "So This Is Love" made the [...]
The 56th Annual GMA Dove Awards Announces First Round of Performers and Presenters
The Gospel Music Association (GMA) has announced the first round of performers and presenters for the 56th Annual GMA Dove Awards. Performers include Lauren Daigle, Fred Hammond featuring The Choir Room, Gaither Vocal Band, and Josiah Queen. Presenters include John Crist, Sadie Robertson Huff, David & Tamela Mann, and Chris [...]
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“The Lord Has Made a Way” Pastor Derail Smith & the Cosmopolitan Church of Prayer Warriors Independent (release date: May 15, 2023) By Robert M. Marovich Now in its seventh [...]
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This episode includes music reviewed on JGM between late June and late August 2023
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LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
“I Am Triumphant” Michelle Brooks-Thompson (2017) www.michellebrooksthompsonmusic.com By Bob Marovich On her new single, “I Am Triumphant,” gospel songstress Michelle Brooks-Thompson and her background singers console those who feel defeated by letting them know they are already winners. Their victory is already in the bag, through Christ Jesus. After the collective establishes the song’s premise, the BGVs maintain [...]
“Come Too Far” New Golden Crowns of Louisville, KY Sharp Records (release date: June 1, 2017) Available from Amazon.com By Bob Marovich Organized in 1940 as the Golden Crowns, an a cappella quartet, the New Golden Crowns of Louisville, Kentucky, are comprised of a mixture of new members and a couple of veterans, notably lead [...]
“Sweet Beulah Land” Eddie Ruth Bradford (release date: September 25, 2017) https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/eddieruthbradford3 By Bob Marovich The gospel songbird of Clarksdale, Mississippi, is at it again, this time with a mournful hymn about the eternal home. Backed by minimal instrumentation and the producer’s voice multi-tracked to simulate a male quartet (and a good one, too), “Sweet Beulah [...]
“Wood and Nails” Josh Garrels and Audrey Assad From Work Songs: The Porter’s Gate Worship Project, Volume 1 (Live) (release date: October 6, 2017) www.portersgateworship.com By Bob Marovich "Wood and Nails," Josh Garrels and Audrey Assad’s feather-light and stunningly gorgeous duet, has its foundation in contemporary Christian music but its simplicity seems to come straight from a Shaker [...]
“God is Making a Change” Endurance From the SCCME CD Changed (release date: September 29, 2017) www.musicbyendurance.com By Bob Marovich Infrequently in Journal of Gospel Music's 13-year history has an artist charted two successive Picks of the Week. Houston’s Endurance has done it this time. Last week, we featured the quartet’s “Changed,” featuring a lead [...]
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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.
Mr. J. Matthew Cobb of HiFi Magazine informed the Journal of Gospel Music that Rickey Grundy, leader of the Rickey Grundy Chorale; a musician; and a composer and arranger of dozens of popular gospel songs, died in Los Angeles, California, today, July 27, at the age of 56. Grundy not only recorded with his own Rickey Grundy [...]
Gregory Gay of GOSPELflava.com informed JGM of the passing of DeVaughn Murphy, known for writing VaShawn Mitchell's "Chasing After You." Min. Murphy passed away last week. ATLANTA, GA (July 20, 2015) – Truly loved and celebrated by his family and friends for the tremendous musical anointing on his life, it is with bittersweet joy that [...]
