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“Count Your Blessings” – Ellen Hayes
In a deep-toned but melodic voice, Detroit’s own Ellen Hayes and her background vocalists declare on “Count Your Blessings” that when you are despairing, remember what you already have.
Quartet Music Awards® Announce 4th Annual Celebration Honoring Gospel Quartet Excellence
Charlotte, NC – The Quartet Music Awards® (QMA®) is proud to announce its 4th Annual Awards Show, set to take place on Saturday, April 25, 2026, in Charlotte, North Carolina. This highly anticipated event will once again bring together gospel music lovers, artists, and industry leaders for an unforgettable weekend [...]
JGM Pick of the Week – September 15, 2025
A week after Bishop Norman Hutchins left this earth, Pastor Markees Williams released his version of Hutchins’s “Nobody But Jesus.”
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Bob Marovich of the Journal of Gospel Music interviews gospel recording artist Lil Prince.
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“Count Your Blessings” – Ellen Hayes
In a deep-toned but melodic voice, Detroit’s own Ellen Hayes and her background vocalists declare on “Count Your Blessings” that when you are despairing, remember what you already have.
Quartet Music Awards® Announce 4th Annual Celebration Honoring Gospel Quartet Excellence
Charlotte, NC – The Quartet Music Awards® (QMA®) is proud to announce its 4th Annual Awards Show, set to take place on Saturday, April 25, 2026, in Charlotte, North Carolina. This highly anticipated event will once again bring together gospel music lovers, artists, and industry leaders for an unforgettable weekend [...]
JGM Pick of the Week – September 15, 2025
A week after Bishop Norman Hutchins left this earth, Pastor Markees Williams released his version of Hutchins’s “Nobody But Jesus.”
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Brandon Lake Leads The Night With Four GMA Dove Awards Including Artist Of The Year, Tasha Cobbs Leonard Takes Home Two Awards Including Gospel Worship Album of the Year The [...]
Jekalyn Carr Jekalyn New Day Entertainment (release date: October 20, 2023) By Robert M. Marovich Jekalyn Carr, gospel music’s queen of encouragement, returns with a self-titled album that captures [...]
Heavenly Rain is a laidback album with smooth vibes enveloping conventional Christian lyrics about the need for blessings in troubled times, the power of prayer, the glory of the hereafter, and the unconditional love of the Lord.
“You’re Gonna Win” Johnny Ruffin Jr. JBP Music Entertainment (release date: July 21, 2023) By Robert M. Marovich Johnny Ruffin Jr.’s new single “You’re Gonna Win,” is his finest [...]
Fort Worth, Texas-based Christian hip hop artist Norris J and La’Kea Stokes take no prisoners on “Already Won.”
On her debut single, “For You and I,” Chicagoan Shunice Hill chooses a quiet storm groove to sing about the selfless love of Jesus.
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“I’m Saved” Dexter Walker & Zion Movement (release date: December 1, 2017) Available from Amazon.com By Bob Marovich Chicago is a choir town. Always has been. One of Chicago’s current crop of choir stars is Dexter Walker & Zion Movement. Crowned the best church choir in America at the 2012 Verizon How Sweet the Sound [...]
“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 [...]
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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.
By Bob Marovich JGM learned from Gregory Gay of GOSPELflava.com the sad news that Ms. Bertha Burley Melson, one of the stalwarts of the Chicago gospel music community, passed away. She was 82. Born in Chicago on March 4, 1933, Melson was a member of the famed Lux Singers, a gospel group founded by Beatrice Lux that [...]
Gospel Music Fever reports that Maggie Ingram, the "Gospel Queen of Richmond" and leader of the Ingramettes family gospel group, has died. With the Six Trumpets, Ingram made an auspicious recording debut in 1961 singing the Christmas song, "Jesus Christ the Baby." It was a radio hit and propelled Ingram into the forefront of gospel music. She [...]
