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Journal of Gospel Music Editor-in-Chief Robert Marovich Receives Living Legacy Award
Robert Marovich, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Gospel Music, received the 2026 Tyrone Porter Living Legacy Award from the Arnold Fields Endowment Foundation and Palmetto State Gospel Music Association on March 7, 2026.
“All In His Hands” – Darien Brooks
The independent single “All In His Hands” has the elements of a radio hit.
Root Magazine Launches Rooted In Wellness Initiative at 16th Anniversary Celebration and Live Gospel Showcase in Nashville, TN
Hasan James New York, NY – July 31, 2025 – Root Magazine, one of gospel music’s premier publications, proudly announces the launch of its groundbreaking health awareness initiative, Rooted In Wellness, during its Sixteenth Anniversary Celebration and Annual Live Musical Showcase. The event will take place on Friday, [...]
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Journal of Gospel Music Editor-in-Chief Robert Marovich Receives Living Legacy Award
Robert Marovich, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Gospel Music, received the 2026 Tyrone Porter Living Legacy Award from the Arnold Fields Endowment Foundation and Palmetto State Gospel Music Association on March 7, 2026.
“All In His Hands” – Darien Brooks
The independent single “All In His Hands” has the elements of a radio hit.
Root Magazine Launches Rooted In Wellness Initiative at 16th Anniversary Celebration and Live Gospel Showcase in Nashville, TN
Hasan James New York, NY – July 31, 2025 – Root Magazine, one of gospel music’s premier publications, proudly announces the launch of its groundbreaking health awareness initiative, Rooted In Wellness, during its Sixteenth Anniversary Celebration and Annual Live Musical Showcase. The event will take place on Friday, [...]
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Gaither Tribute is a big bouquet of roses for Bill and Gloria Gaither.
Dewitt Johnson, a Nashvillian and co-organizer of the B. C. & M. Mass Choir and founder of the Johnson Ensemble, has gone on to earn his wings.
If the four singles from Gotta Die are any indication, Flatline Movement has a promising career ahead.
Produced by Brown, Gaither Tribute features Gaither compositions reinterpreted by stars like Reba McEntyre, Alabama, Hillary Scott, Jamey Johnson, CeCe Winans, and Ronnie Milsap. The album is slated for release by the Gaither Music Group (distributed by Capitol Christian Music Group and Universal Music) on Friday, August 25.
By Robert M. Marovich JGM learned from Darrell Luster of the Malaco Music Group that Mr. Haywood Barnes of the Sunset Jubilaires gospel quartet passed away on August 14, 2023. [...]
With her latest single, “For My Good,” New York-based gospel singer Angela Missy Billups encourages anyone facing a challenge to hang in there and be encouraged.
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LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
“Grace” Charles Jenkins & Fellowship Chicago feat. Le’Andria Johnson Inspired People, LLC (release date: July 7, 2017) Available from digital media outlets By Bob Marovich Pastor Charles Jenkins & Fellowship Chicago’s “Grace” feels like a quicker-tempo version of Kirk Franklin’s “I Smile” with its plinky piano, chirpy melody, finger-popping rhythm, and unison singing. The choir [...]
Bri photographed at BET's New York studio on April 19, 2017. (Photo: Andre L. Perry/BET) "So Good” Bri (Release date: June 9, 2017) Available from digital music outlets By Bob Marovich When on “So Good” Bri (Briana Babineaux) sings “God’s been so good to me,” there are plenty of reasons for her to [...]
“Grace & Mercy” Tamika Patton feat. Min. Earl Bynum Available on iTunes and other Digital Media www.TamikaPatton.com By Bob Marovich On the independent single, "Grace & Mercy,” Tamika Patton proclaims her gratitude to God for his unconditional love and forgiveness. Such compassion, given “to a wretch like me,” has inspired her to pass it forward. [...]
“Fly Away” Shonda English feat. Dorothy Norwood Available at digital music stores www.shondaenglish.com By Bob Marovich It might be intimidating to duet with a legend such as Dorothy Norwood, but to Shonda English, The Storyteller of Gospel is “Aunt Dot.” It was “Aunt Dot,” in fact, who brought Bob Jeffreys and Sanchez Harley’s easy-going, bittersweet [...]
“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 [...]
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.
Marcel West of Detroit reported to the Journal of Gospel Music that Mr. Cleveland Cole, father-in-law of Dorinda Clark Cole and a musician in his own right, passed away Sunday morning. Marcel adds that Cole was the president of the famous Southwest Michigan State Choir of the Church of God in Christ, under the direction [...]
The Duncanaires: Honey Sykes top row, second from left. I was so dismayed to hear that Delores "Honey" Sykes of the Duncanaires and Thompson Community Singers, has passed away. I spoke with her sometime last month and although she had been on dialysis for some time, there wasn't any indication that her illness [...]
