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“I Do, Don’t You” – Kergyma Community Choir
“I Do, Don’t You” Kergyma Community Choir From the Kergyma Music Group album Choir Life (Deluxe Version) (release date: June 24, 2021) www.kergyma.org By Robert M. Marovich I appreciate when a contemporary gospel group pulls out the hymnbook and updates an old standard for today’s audiences. That’s what the Kergyma Community Choir does with “I Do, Don’t You.” They and lead singer Darnell Williams (of the Williams Singers) give the hymn such bounce that one could mistakenly think it was written last year. But the hymn on which this version is based, Melville Miller and E. O. Excell’s “I Know [...]
Jamie Lee Rake Reviews Milwaukee Quartet Program
Originally written for publication in online contemporary Christian and gospel music magazine The Phantom Tollbooth (http://www.tollbooth.org/) Lee Williams & The Spiritual QC's Lisa Knowles & The Brown Singers The Golden Bells The Christland Singers The Fabulous Luckett Brothers Tiffany Terry P. Wilson & Pure Worship Abundant Faith Church of Integrity, Milwaukee, [...]
Shunice Hill-Sullivan – He Won’t Leave Me Alone (EP)
Shunice Hill-Sullivan He Won’t Leave Me Alone (EP) Independent (release date: September 1, 2015) www.ShuniceHillSullivan.com By Bob Marovich On her EP He Won’t Leave Me Alone, Christian singer Shunice Hill-Sullivan eschews gospel music histrionics for understated lyrics and arrangements. A gentle electric piano guides a small quiet storm combo through [...]
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“I Do, Don’t You” – Kergyma Community Choir
“I Do, Don’t You” Kergyma Community Choir From the Kergyma Music Group album Choir Life (Deluxe Version) (release date: June 24, 2021) www.kergyma.org By Robert M. Marovich I appreciate when a contemporary gospel group pulls out the hymnbook and updates an old standard for today’s audiences. That’s what the Kergyma Community Choir does with “I Do, Don’t You.” They and lead singer Darnell Williams (of the Williams Singers) give the hymn such bounce that one could mistakenly think it was written last year. But the hymn on which this version is based, Melville Miller and E. O. Excell’s “I Know [...]
Jamie Lee Rake Reviews Milwaukee Quartet Program
Originally written for publication in online contemporary Christian and gospel music magazine The Phantom Tollbooth (http://www.tollbooth.org/) Lee Williams & The Spiritual QC's Lisa Knowles & The Brown Singers The Golden Bells The Christland Singers The Fabulous Luckett Brothers Tiffany Terry P. Wilson & Pure Worship Abundant Faith Church of Integrity, Milwaukee, [...]
Shunice Hill-Sullivan – He Won’t Leave Me Alone (EP)
Shunice Hill-Sullivan He Won’t Leave Me Alone (EP) Independent (release date: September 1, 2015) www.ShuniceHillSullivan.com By Bob Marovich On her EP He Won’t Leave Me Alone, Christian singer Shunice Hill-Sullivan eschews gospel music histrionics for understated lyrics and arrangements. A gentle electric piano guides a small quiet storm combo through [...]
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“It’s Christ Time”Lenear Royalty Independent Release 2009www.myspace.com/lenearroyaltyFormerly known in the secular world as “Romeo Dance,” Chicago-based Lenear Royalty re-embraced religion in 1986, started his gospel music career, and in 2005 [...]
David G. EvansPure LoveAbundant Harvest Entertainment 2009www.davidgevans.comBishop David G. Evans is a multi-media minister, Prelate of the Abundant Harvest Fellowship of Churches, Pastor of the 27,000-member Bethany Baptist Church in [...]
LaShell GriffinThe GiftGod’s World Music 2005http://www.myspace.com/35740870With the Christmas season just around the corner, it’s time to review holiday CDs by gospel artists. Let’s start with LaShell Griffin’s The Gift, recorded [...]
Smokie NorfulSmokie Norful LiveEMI Gospel 2009www.emigospel.comSmokie Norful possesses one of the finest male voices in gospel music today. His vocal melisma, or “curlicues,” are like the micro-bursts of sound Charlie [...]
From PR Newswire:Atlanta West Pentecostal Church Choir from Atlanta West Pentecostal Church won Verizon Wireless’ How Sweet the Sound(TM) competition and has earned the title of "The Best Church Choir [...]
“I Wanna Thank You”The Clark Sisters, Kierra Sheard, J MossFrom Silky Soul Music…An All-Star Tribute to Maze Featuring Frankie BeverlyBrantera Music Group 2009www.branteramusicgroup.com“I Wanna Thank You” may belong to Maze [...]
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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.
