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Motown Gospel Partners with Karew Records in Signing Karen Clark Sheard
(Nashville, TN) - February 10, 2022 - Globally-acclaimed label Motown Gospel (a division of Capitol CMG/Capitol and Universal Music Group) is honored to announce the signing of legendary 4-time GRAMMY-winning singer, musician, songwriter, entrepreneur, and First Lady of COGIC (Church of God in Christ) Karen Clark Sheard, in partnership with Karew Records, with plans to release her first new album in over half a decade later this year. It will follow Clark Sheard’s 2015 live album Destined To Win, her highest-charting album in her solo career and her 2010 studio album All In One, which earned GRAMMY, Stellar, Dove and [...]
RIP: Lavelle Lacy, Gospel Musician and Songwriter
Photo Credit: Facebook JGM learned the sad news that Chicagoan and longtime gospel musician Lavelle Lacy has gone from labor to reward. The number of gospel artists he accompanied is numerous, and includes Inez Andrews, Rev. Maceo Woods and the Christian Tabernacle Concert Choir, Rev. Ernest Franklin, and the [...]
JGM Pick of the Week: July 23, 2018
“Even Louder” Steven Malcolm feat. Leeland From the IVAV (Word Entertainment) EP The Second City, Pt. 2 (release date: June 8, 2018) www.StevenMalcolm.com By Bob Marovich “Even Louder,” written by Steven Malcolm and Leeland Mooring, blends musical understatement with Malcolm’s declarative rap about the many wonders of salvation. Its lullaby-like [...]
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Motown Gospel Partners with Karew Records in Signing Karen Clark Sheard
(Nashville, TN) - February 10, 2022 - Globally-acclaimed label Motown Gospel (a division of Capitol CMG/Capitol and Universal Music Group) is honored to announce the signing of legendary 4-time GRAMMY-winning singer, musician, songwriter, entrepreneur, and First Lady of COGIC (Church of God in Christ) Karen Clark Sheard, in partnership with Karew Records, with plans to release her first new album in over half a decade later this year. It will follow Clark Sheard’s 2015 live album Destined To Win, her highest-charting album in her solo career and her 2010 studio album All In One, which earned GRAMMY, Stellar, Dove and [...]
RIP: Lavelle Lacy, Gospel Musician and Songwriter
Photo Credit: Facebook JGM learned the sad news that Chicagoan and longtime gospel musician Lavelle Lacy has gone from labor to reward. The number of gospel artists he accompanied is numerous, and includes Inez Andrews, Rev. Maceo Woods and the Christian Tabernacle Concert Choir, Rev. Ernest Franklin, and the [...]
JGM Pick of the Week: July 23, 2018
“Even Louder” Steven Malcolm feat. Leeland From the IVAV (Word Entertainment) EP The Second City, Pt. 2 (release date: June 8, 2018) www.StevenMalcolm.com By Bob Marovich “Even Louder,” written by Steven Malcolm and Leeland Mooring, blends musical understatement with Malcolm’s declarative rap about the many wonders of salvation. Its lullaby-like [...]
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Introducing Eunice WrightWait On MeJoyful Noyze Records 2009www.myspace.com/joyfulnoyzeentertainmentLast month, TBGB reported that “In Me,” the single from Delaware psalmist Eunice Wright, “is a hypnotically lullaby-like, contemplative ballad set to a [...]
JJ Hairston of the group Youthful Praise spent time with The Black Gospel Blog recently to talk about the group's genesis, its musical influences, and the forthcoming CD, Resting On [...]
"The Master Plan”Tamela MannTilly Mann Music Group 2009www.tamelamann.comA message on gospel singer Tamela Mann’s website countering rumors that she and husband David have “been called on home to glory” reminds [...]
Bro. Steve TV Series presentsUnderstanding Church Growthwww.brosteve.comwww.churchgrowthDVD.comHollywood-based multi-media entrepreneur Steve Harris – known to the church community as “Bro. Steve” – has over the past several years created a number [...]
“I Love the Lord”The Voices of CloudsVOC Records www.thevoicesofclouds.comLegendary quartets never die: they change record labels or produce their own material, but they continue travelling the gospel highway, singing the [...]
JavenKeeping the FaithMelrose Music (Universal) (release date: August 25, 2009)www.javenonline.comJaven first appeared on TBGB’s radar screen last fall when his single, “Keeping the Faith,” was included on a new artist [...]
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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.
