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“Beautiful Day” – Trenton Kirksey ft. Nikki Ross
“Beautiful Day” Trenton Kirksey ft. Nikki Ross Independent (2022) www.Facebook.com/MusicByTrent By Robert M. Marovich “Beautiful Day” is the debut single from Trenton Kirksey, a Houston-based baritone vocalist, songwriter, and conductor. Fellow Houstonian Nikki Ross is the vocalist on Kirksey’s track. To a classically-inspired and Latin-fired arrangement, Ross expresses unbridled joy not just in her experience of reality, with all of the sadness and happiness life brings, but also in the faith that the day forthcoming will be beautiful. To reinforce the point, a full-throated choir chants from 2 Corinthians 5:7—“not by sight but by faith”—behind her. A morning mantra, if [...]
Lady Beatrice Ward & Angelic Voices: Lord Help Me
Lady Beatrice Ward & Angelic Voices Lord Help Me Independent (release date: March 25, 2018) By Bob Marovich From the lead guitar riffs that open “When Trouble Rise,” and the song’s incessantly chugging rhythm, you know that Lady Beatrice Ward and the Angelic Voices’ Lord Help Me is going to [...]
JGM Pick of the Week: November 27, 2018
“The Great I Am” Shree Isabell Kamasia Music (release date: September 28, 2018) www.shreeisabell.com By Bob Marovich “The Great I Am” is an explosive new single from Evangelist Shree Isabell, a member of Dr. Bobby Jones’ Nashville Super Choir. Through the retelling of biblical stories about freeing the Israelites and [...]
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“Beautiful Day” – Trenton Kirksey ft. Nikki Ross
“Beautiful Day” Trenton Kirksey ft. Nikki Ross Independent (2022) www.Facebook.com/MusicByTrent By Robert M. Marovich “Beautiful Day” is the debut single from Trenton Kirksey, a Houston-based baritone vocalist, songwriter, and conductor. Fellow Houstonian Nikki Ross is the vocalist on Kirksey’s track. To a classically-inspired and Latin-fired arrangement, Ross expresses unbridled joy not just in her experience of reality, with all of the sadness and happiness life brings, but also in the faith that the day forthcoming will be beautiful. To reinforce the point, a full-throated choir chants from 2 Corinthians 5:7—“not by sight but by faith”—behind her. A morning mantra, if [...]
Lady Beatrice Ward & Angelic Voices: Lord Help Me
Lady Beatrice Ward & Angelic Voices Lord Help Me Independent (release date: March 25, 2018) By Bob Marovich From the lead guitar riffs that open “When Trouble Rise,” and the song’s incessantly chugging rhythm, you know that Lady Beatrice Ward and the Angelic Voices’ Lord Help Me is going to [...]
JGM Pick of the Week: November 27, 2018
“The Great I Am” Shree Isabell Kamasia Music (release date: September 28, 2018) www.shreeisabell.com By Bob Marovich “The Great I Am” is an explosive new single from Evangelist Shree Isabell, a member of Dr. Bobby Jones’ Nashville Super Choir. Through the retelling of biblical stories about freeing the Israelites and [...]
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If you caught the radio tribute to the late Paul Arnold of the Gospelaires on "Gospel Memories" (www.gospelmemories.com) this morning, you heard that family, friends and associates of the singer [...]
The Gospel CrusadersHe’s All I NeedFCMG 2009www.thegospelcrusaders.comThe Gospel Crusaders – now there’s an old-school quartet moniker! – may hail from Chicago, but their bluesy traditional sound is carved right from [...]
“The Testimony”Butch WashingtonKingsway RecordsEulasw@yahoo.comOn “The Testimony,” baritone crooner Eulas “Butch” Washington of Lancaster, SC relates in a soulful ballad a friend's personal victory, through Jesus, over the ravages of alcohol, [...]
Ken HardeoI Honor YouBGH Music 2008www.kenhardeo.comGlancing at the front cover of Ken Hardeo’s debut CD I Honor You, you might think that Ken is the main vocalist. In fact, with [...]
“Whose Report”Pastor DeWayne Harvey Presents the Greater Blessings Tabernacle of PraiseFrom the album The Report of the Lord (release date: March 2010)http://dewayneharvey.tumblr.com/Pastor DeWayne Harvey, called “one of the Renaissance men [...]
Gospel Duo Duncan & RachelleGod’s TimeIndependent Release 2009http://www.duncanandrachelle.com/Rev. Duncan P. Lane and Min. Rachelle Moore-Lane, both from South Jersey, were each members of various church and community choirs for years [...]
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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.
